Sorbus latifolia (the service tree of Fontainebleau; French: alisier de Fontainebleau) is a species of whitebeam that is endemic to the area around Fontainebleau, south of Paris in France, where it has been known since the early eighteenth century.
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Since it is very fertile and grows true from seed, it has occasionally been able to naturalise in woodlands beyond its origins in the protected Fontainebleau woods, as at Abney Park Cemetery (an early Victorian garden cemetery in Stoke Newington, London).
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Meanwhile, the horticulturalist, George Loddiges, whom Loudon held in high regard, labelled his arboretum trees at Abney Park Cemetery in 1840, as Sorbus latifolia, the currently-accepted binomial.
Sorbus | Sorbus aucuparia | Typha latifolia | Dalbergia latifolia | Kalmia latifolia | Sorbus vexans | Sorbus subcuneata | Silene latifolia | Sagittaria latifolia | Anogeissus latifolia | ''Trientalis latifolia | Sorbus torminalis | ''Sorbus'' subgenus ''Sorbus'' | Sorbus eminens | Sorbus admonitor | Imago, larva and ''Typha latifolia | Fraxinus latifolia |