White Ash
(Fraxinus americana L.)
LEAVES: Opposite, compound, about 10" long, with 5-9 leaflets each 3"-5" long, short-stalked, silvery beneath, margins entire or with a few rounded teeth toward the tip.
White ash is a rapidly growing timber tree native to eastern North America. Its shock-resistant timber is used for tool handles and baseball bats.
Fraxinus americana (white ash) tree at Kew Gardens
Species Information ...
American Ash, White Ash
Rapid-growing Ash trees are important both in the landscape and as a timber crop. They reach 80 feet and provide dense shade. Most commonly grown White and Green Ashes are used as street, lawn or shade trees.
Autumn Blaze, or White Ash is a tall, deciduous tree. As a young tree, tends to be upright oval in habit, later it develops an open and rounded crown. Medium fast growing tree that has ash-gray bark with diamond shaped furrows.
white ash Oleaceae Fraxinus americana L. symbol: FRAM2
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* 66. White Ash / Aw / Fraxinus americana
leaf
20-30 cm long.
odd pinnately compound.
5-9 leaflets (usually 7).
leaflets oval, weakly toothed to wavy, stalked.
buds ...
White ash is the most valuable of the ashes for timber; the wood is lightweight yet hard and strong, and used to make tool handles, furniture and baseball bats. Native Americans made baskets and snowshoes from the flexible but strong young branches.
30 (60)m, White Ash throughout S Australia. A very tall and fast growing tree with highly decorative white bark. Attractive foliage, juvenile leaves are purple. For a cool, rather moist spot.
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WHITE ASH. Eastern United States.
Pinnate leaves about 10 inches long with five leaflets, smooth green on top and pale and possibly furry underneath. The fruit is a hanging winged seed 1 or 2 inches long.
Skyline White Ash [English]: Fraxinus americana 'Skycole'
Skyline White Pansy [English]: Viola x wittrockiana 'Skyline White'
Skyline® Honey Locust [English]: Gleditsia triacanthos 'Skycole' ...
americana, White Ash (Jacobson, 1996). Oregon State Univ. campus: row planted north of the softball field on Western Ave.
‘Marshall' (syn. ‘Marshall's Seedless') - is by far the most commonly planted Green Ash cultivar.
Fraxinus americana (White Ash, Biltmore Aash)
Fraxinus angustifolia (Narrow Leaved Ash)
Fraxinus dipetala (Foothill Ash)
Fraxinus excelsior (European Ash)
Fraxinus greggii (Littleleaf Ash, Gregg Ash)
Fraxinus holotricha ...
leaf undersides often somewhat pubescent, unlike white ash
leaves dark green; turning clear yellow in fall (F. americana is often purplish)
terminal bud round, scaled, often pubescent, rusty brown
buds smaller and narrower than F. americana ...
sylvatica White Ash Fraxinus americana Green Ash F. pennsylvanica Hessei European Ash F. excelsior 'Hessei' Ginkgo Ginkgo biloba Thornless Common Honeylocust Gleditsia tricanthos var. inermis White Oak Quercus alba Shingle Oak Q.
In general, to the experienced eye, white ash and green ashes can be told apart with no problem. But certain individual trees do puzzle us, because both species are variable in such details as presence or absence of hairs, and leaf toothing.
The most valuable of the species used for hardwood timber is the white ash (F. americana), ranging from Nova Scotia to Minnesota and Texas. Its strong, durable wood is used for sporting goods, furniture, tool handles, and oars.
Fraxinus americana, White Ash
Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash
Fraxinus nigra, Black Ash
Magnolia spp., Magnolias
Quercus alba, White Oak
Quercus macrocarpa, Bur Oak
Quercus nigra, Black Oak
Quercus rubra, Northern Red Oak ...
Nombres relacionados: American White Ash (inglés), Fraxinus acuminata (sinónimo), Fraxinus alba (sinónimo), Fraxinus texensis (sinónimo), Fresno americano (castellano), Oleaceae (familia), Yasen americky (eslovaco).
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Green and white ash
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Upland: Red Maple (Acer rubrum), Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum), Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis), Paper Birch (Betula papyrifera), White Ash (Fraxinus americana), White Spruce (Picea glauca), White Pine (Pinus strobus), ...
Description:
Green Ash, as compared to White Ash, has thinner stems, smaller terminal and lateral buds, and leaf scars with a "D" shape rolled over on its side (containing a lateral bud set on top of the flat portion of each leaf scar).
It yields to boiling alcohol not less than 50 per cent of a resinous extract, and when burnt yields not more than 2 per cent of a white ash, rich in phosphates.
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 See also: Ash, Green, Fraxinus, Fraxinus americana, May
  
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