Whitebeam

In the artificial limestone pavement of the quarries, native whitebeam had sprung up, and we found a lime kiln hidden in the trees. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Vine Parthenocissus himalayana and clematis Clematis montana are also common and other low altitude trees include maple Acer campbellii and whitebeam Sorbus cuspidata. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then, whereas the day was very calm and fair, and the dame had given her holiday, she wandered about the eyot, and most in a little wood of berry-trees, as quicken and whitebeam and dog-wood, and sported with the birds, who feared her not, but came and sat on her shoulders, and crept about her feet. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“How red the whitebeam berries are!” he murmured, not knowing why. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He remembered that just under the window there were several thick and high bushes of elder and whitebeam. ❋ Unknown (2003)

At last he came to a bank of beautiful shrubs; whitebeam, with its great silver-backed leaves, and mountain ash, and oak; and below them cliff and crag, cliff and crag, with great beds of crown ferns and wood sedge; while through the shrubs he could see the stream sparkling, and hear it murmur on the white pebbles. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

Flashing like the whitebeam, swaying like the reed. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Flashing as in gusts the sudden-lighted whitebeam: ❋ Unknown (1919)

So came they nigh to the crown of the bent, and before them were the oak-trees sparser and smaller as they went down the further side, which seemed by their sudden shortening to be steeper than the hither side; and betwixt them showed the topmost of thorn and whitebeam and logwood, intertwined with eglantine and honeysuckle and the new shoots of the traveller's joy. ❋ William Morris (1865)

Avon Gorge is home to two species of tree - the Bristol and Wilmott's whitebeam - found nowhere else on the planet. ❋ Caroline Davies (2011)

So came they nigh to the crown of the bent, and before them were the oak-trees sparser and smaller as they went down the further side, which seemed by their sudden shortening to be steeper than the hither side; and betwixt them showed the topmost of thorn and whitebeam and logwood, intertwined with eglantine and honeysuckle and the new shoots of the traveller’s joy. ❋ Unknown (2007)