Feedback request: Sorbus aria (19001)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #337126

Taxon:	Rosaceae: Sorbus aria (L.) Crantz ("Common Whitebeam")
Filed in taxon folder:	Rosaceae: Sorbus aria (L.) Crantz ("Common Whitebeam")
Collected by:	Mr Charles Edward Britton
Collection date:	18/5/1933
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Whyteleafe, TQ35
ex herb:	Mr Charles Edward Britton
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	4073
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	forma

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Documented by oldnick on 24^th May 2012.

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oldnick wrote

Is there any connection between S aria and the village name which 'comes from White Leaf field, which was donated by a benefactor for the building of the church'? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whyteleafe

[David Price]

Ingenious!

"The place derives its name from a field which was called Whiteleaf Field, from the aspens growing in it ...." Victoria County History ed. Malden (1912).