Fraxinus elonza
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Fraxinus elonza' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Fraxinus americana
- Fraxinus angustifolia
- Fraxinus anomala
- Fraxinus biltmoreana
- Fraxinus bungeana
- Fraxinus caroliniana
- Fraxinus chinensis
- Fraxinus cuspidata
- Fraxinus dipetala
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Fraxinus floribunda
- Fraxinus griffithii
- Fraxinus holotricha
- Fraxinus lanuginosa
- Fraxinus latifolia
- Fraxinus longicuspis
- Fraxinus mandshurica
- Fraxinus mariesii
- Fraxinus nigra
- Fraxinus obliqua
- Fraxinus ornus
- Fraxinus oxycarpa
- Fraxinus pallisiae
- Fraxinus paxiana
- Fraxinus pennsylvanica
- Fraxinus platypoda
- Fraxinus pubinervis
- Fraxinus quadrangulata
- Fraxinus rotundifolia
- Fraxinus sieboldiana
- Fraxinus sogdiana
- Fraxinus spaethiana
- Fraxinus syriaca
- Fraxinus texensis
- Fraxinus tomentosa
- Fraxinus 'Veltheimii'
- Fraxinus velutina
- Fraxinus xanthoxyloides
A small, elegant tree with glabrous, grey-green young shoots furnished with whitish warts; buds dark brown, scurfy. Leaves up to 10 or 11 in. long, with nine to thirteen leaflets, which are ovate, oval or lance-shaped, broadly tapered at the base, shortly pointed, sharply toothed, 1 to 3 in. long, 1⁄2 to 1 in. wide, stalkless, dark dull green, and glabrous above, with brownish down densely tufted near the base of the midrib beneath; the main leaf-stalk is whitish beneath, downy in places, winged on the upper side, the wings erect and forming a narrow groove. Flowers and fruit not seen. This ash is of uncertain origin, and is supposed to be a hybrid, probably with F. oxycarpa as one parent.
There is an example at Kew, in the Ash collection, pl. 1900, measuring 73 × 33⁄4 ft (1967).
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
This is probably a variant of F. oxycarpa rather than a hybrid of it. The example at Kew, pl. 1900. measures 87 × 4 ft (1971).