Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Common name
Green Ash, Red Ash
Family
Oleaceae
Where found
Garden escape. Canberra.
Notes
Introduced deciduous tree to 20 metres high. Bark smooth and grey on young trees, becoming thick and fissured with age. Winter buds reddish-brown, with a velvety texture. Leaves opposite each other, 15–30 cm long, with 5–11 leaflets each 5–18 cm long, 12–90 mm wide, margins entire to to slightly toothed above the middle, tips pointed, both surfaces deep green. Leaves turn yellow in autumn. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers small, with 0 petals, in compact branched clusters. Flowering: Spring, at the same time as the new leaves. 'Seeds' brown when mature, with one wing, 2.5–7.5 cm overall.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Fraxinus~pennsylvanica (accessed 16 April 2021)
Wikipedia description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinus_pennsylvanica (accessed 16 April 2021)
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