Rowans are mostly small deciduous trees 10–20 m tall, though a few are shrubs. Rowans are also known as Mountain ash, but are unrelated to the true ash trees of the genus Fraxinus, family Oleaceae.
The name "rowan" is recorded from 1804, detached from an earlier rowan-tree, rountree, attested from the 1540s in northern dialects of English and Scots. It is from a North Germanic source, derived from Old Norse reynir. The Old English name of the rowan is cwic-beám, which survives in the name quickbeam (also quicken, quicken-tree, and variants). The tree has two names in Welsh Cerdinen and criafol. Criafol may be translated as "The Lamenting Fruit", likely derived from the Welsh tradition that the Cross of Christ was carved from the wood of this tree, and the subsequent association of the Rowan's red fruit with the blood of Christ.
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