The Service Tree of J.C. Jacobsens Have

The register's surveyors deal in centimetres and growth forms. For this one the note says simply that it is a large and beautiful tree, and stops there. The reason for the lapse is probably the species. Sorbus domestica, the service tree, is a genuine rarity in Denmark, a wild relative of the rowan that grows slowly, fruits sparsely, and turns up in old collections rather than in parks. The fruit is the tell, small and shaped like a miniature pear or apple rather than the rowan's cluster of red berries, and it was once gathered and left to go soft before anybody would eat it. This one is 3.18 metres round and 16 metres tall on a single stem, standing 40 metres due north of the fountain in J.C. Jacobsens Have, and the register recorded it healthy in April 2019. The garden was laid out in 1848 as the private grounds of the brewer who founded Carlsberg and filled over the years with trees he brought home from his travels; it opened to the public in 2009. Whether this service tree was one of his is not recorded, so the tree itself stands on the register entry alone.