The Wild Service Tree (Sorbus Torminalis) is a rare native deciduous broadleaf hedging tree with narrow, spiky leaves which turn from green to yellow, then orange and finally purple-red in autumn. A beautiful native unusual tree which can grow to 25m in height, the Wild Service Tree, or Chequer / Checker Tree, has rounded heads of small creamy-white flowers which are produced between May to June, followed by clusters of speckled brown fruit with small pale lenticels spots, which ripen in September. The Wild Service Tree has been past famed for its fruits which children often made into sweets, or adults brewed into alcoholic drinks.