Sorbus commixta

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Sorbus commixta, photographed by Marco Mussita — fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-09-15 / obs. 52387804

Sorbus commixta, photographed by harum.koh — fig. c harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 10942505

Sorbus commixta, photographed by Tamberly Conway — fig. g Tamberly Conway, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194484201

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Sorbus commixta, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China South-Central	CHC	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast	CHS
Japan	JAP
Korea	KOR
Kuril Is.	KUR
Sakhalin	SAK

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 47 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Pyrus americana var. micrantha K.Koch
Pyrus americana var. micrantha Miq.
Pyrus americana var. rufoferruginea (Shirai ex C.K.Schneid.) Koidz.
Pyrus americana var. rufoferruginea Shirai
Pyrus aucuparia var. japonica Maxim. ex Franch. & Sav.
Pyrus commixta (Hedl.) Asch. & Graebn.
Pyrus commixta f. angustissima (C.K.Schneid.) Cardot
Pyrus commixta f. microphylla Cardot
Pyrus cunonioides M.F.Fay & Christenh.
Pyrus horti-edeni M.F.Fay & Christenh.
Pyrus micrantha var. macrophylla Cardot
Pyrus reflexipetala (Koehne) M.F.Fay & Christenh.
Pyrus rufoferruginea (Shirai ex C.K.Schneid.) Cardot
Pyrus wilfordii (Koehne) M.F.Fay & Christenh.
Sorbus amabilis Cheng ex T.T.Yu & K.C.Kuan
Sorbus amabilis var. wuyishanensis Z.X.Yu
Sorbus americana subsp. japonica (Maxim.) Kitam.
Sorbus americana var. japonica (Maxim.) Kitam.
Sorbus americana var. rufoferruginea (Shirai ex C.K.Schneid.) Kitam.
Sorbus amurensis f. latifoliolata (Nakai) W.Lee
Sorbus amurensis f. rufa (Nakai) M.Kim
Sorbus amurensis var. lanata Nakai
Sorbus amurensis var. latifoliolata Nakai
Sorbus amurensis var. rufa Nakai

and 23 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.