Rowan — Naturalist Field Plate | Printable Botanical Tree Wall Art

Rowan · Sorbus aucuparia

A museum-quality naturalist print of the Rowan, illustrated in the tradition of vintage natural history field guides — with accurate taxonomy, a faithful range map, and true-to-life detail. Researched from trusted sources and composed with care.

Every Ashborn plate is built the way a naturalist would have wanted it: the correct order, family, genus and species; a range map; and the details that reward a closer look — the pinnate leaves that echo the ash it is named after but is not related to, the clusters of white spring flowers, the bright orange-red berries, and the thrushes that strip a tree bare within days of them ripening.

Its Latin name means "bird catcher" — rowan berries have drawn birds since long before anyone thought to hunt beside the tree for them. For centuries it was planted by doorways and byres across Europe as protection against harm, and its wood was cut into divining rods. The berries themselves are edible only once cooked; raw, they cause stomach upset.

What you receive
· High-resolution PDF (print-ready, CMYK)
· High-resolution JPEG
· Ashborn Printing Guide (PDF)
· 3:4 ratio — prints beautifully from 6×8 in to gallery size

Perfect for the nature lover, the gardener, or as a thoughtful gift — and designed to hang alongside the other plates in the Ashborn collection for a natural-history gallery wall.

This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped. Frames and room images shown are for presentation purposes only.