Cormier

The cormier or domestic sorb ( Sorbus domestica L.) is a Arbre of the family of the Rosaceae.

Description

It is a tree with the brown-orange bark, the pennate Feuille S null and void (13 to 21 Foliole S) and with the white Fleur S.

Its green fruits stained of brown-reddish with maturity can resemble small Pomme S or small Poire S according to the Cultivar S.

One often confuses the cormier with the Sorbier of the bird-catchers. Cormier has needs in light high (even if he prefers a light shade with the full sun), it is a tree with strong growth and continuous axis able to develop a large houppier. Its very dense wood, 800 to 900 kg/m, the Chêne makes only 700 to 800 kg/m; the Wild cherry tree: 550 to 600.

The cormier badly supports the competition of other trees. The average longevity of the cormier is from 150 to 200 years but one knows old examples of more than four centuries.

The cormier has some natural enemies like the Insecte S or the Champignon S Parasite S but the Chancre (botanical) is to be feared by its virulence. The wood of the cormier, particularly hard, was used to make rules and is always appreciated in cabinet work.

Characteristics

reproductive bodies:

Standard of inflorescence: corymbe
distribution of the sexes: Standard hermaphrodite
of pollination: entomogame
Period of flowering: April at June

seed:

Standard of fruit: Drupe, called Corme
Mode of dissemination: endozoochore

Habitat and distribution:

standard Habitat: wood caducifoliés médioeuropéens, basophilic, oligotrophiles
Surface of distribution: Mediterranean

given according to: Julve, pH., 1998 FF. - Baseflor. Botanical, ecological and chorologic index of the flora of France. Version: April 23rd, 2004.

Species in danger

The cormier is an increasingly rare tree, and is reproduced on the list of the species in danger in Suisse and Austria.

Largest and certainly the oldest specimen of Europe is located close to the town of Strážnice in the province of Moravie, in Czech Republic. Its trunk measures more than 450 cm of circumference and one estimates that it would have more than 400 years.

In France in the east native of the Moselle region in Ebring, at the end of the street of the vault, there is one whose diameter is of 95 cm and 25 to 30 m height, in Grundviller, street of Hambach a very beautiful specimen reached to him also these dimensions, there is very difficult their to give old but one can consider that they are approximately 250 years old to see more. In Théding always in the 57, there remains about it also some specimens of beautiful sizes.

Uses

Manufacture of handles of particularly resistant tools. The wood of cormier is among hardest wood natives in France. It was snuffed the most a long time for the clothes industry of the barrels of tools for welding (planes, plastering trowels, jointers, rabbets…), the massive apple tree or in brought back sole being less appreciated. It was also used to produce tools for tracings, rules, marking gauges, and of measuring apparatus. In the mills, the teeth brought back (Cogs) on cast iron crown of the multiplying gears were made as a cormier.

The fruits, edible after overripeness, were also used to prepare a beverage slightly alcoholic (nasty wine of cormes).

The Gemmothérapie, nonconventional medicine, uses its buds to fight against certain circulatory problems.

Internal bonds

the Jardin of the priory of Orsan have since their re-creation a small orchard of cormiers

External bonds

To support the rare gasolines - the cormier
distinctive Characters of the cormier and the Sorb of the bird-catchers
Regional center of the forest proprity of Brittany, '' the cormier '' ('' Sorbus domestica '')

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