Tree identification from a field guide: mountain-ash
The tutor brings up a shrub perhaps noticeable now.
Around here nowadays, one often sees small trees (shrubs) abundant with red berries. They have compound leaves. My guide suggests they are mountain-ash.
One I examined closely has sharp-pointed leaflets; I believe it to be western mountain-ash (Sorbus scopulina). However, sitka mountain-ash (Sorbus sitchensis) is supposedly more common here on the coast. The guide suggests that mountain-ash prefers middle to high elevations, but also parkland, clearings, and streambanks. I see it all around town.
Sources:
Pojar, Jim and Andy MacKinnon. Plants of Coastal British Columbia. Vancouver:
BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing, 1994.
Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.
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