Consider how much many adults know about words for trees like bay, alder, hornbeam, rowan, or gingko.
Scots pine is, of course, the dominant plant species, but other trees, including birch, alder, willow, aspen, rowan, juniper and holly, also appear.
There is one superb natural woodland, of oak and ash, rowan, thorn and alder, which has not been much disturbed for hundreds of years.
For example, small semi-natural clusters of oak or rowan can be found on some areas of high moor.
Apart from deer, one sees all kinds of other animals such as foxes and badgers looking for worms and berries off the rowan trees.
Particularly rowan trees and silver birch survive very well in those circumstances.
He was tremendously interested in the rowan tree.
I remember a technical boundary dispute which was solved by the position of one scrub rowan tree on the side of a mountain which was shown on the 25 in.