GLEBE TREES AND SHRUBS

White Ash (Fraxinus Americana)

See Ash for more photos.

  
Bark
 
March 19, 2009. Queen Elizabeth Drive at the corner of Broadway.
Diamond-patterned bark.



Leaf scar and bud
 
March 19, 2009. Queen Elizabeth Drive at the corner of Broadway.
Note how the bud sits in a notch of the leaf scar, which is U-shaped and "smiling".
This differs from the semicircle without a notch of the more common green ash.


Similar species
Red elderberry and elder: these also have opposite, compound leaves. They do not grow as tall as ash, and do not have
the diamond pattern on mature bark. Flowers are very different.
Mountain ash, butternut, black walnut, honey locust and sumac all have compound leaves but in an alternate pattern.

List of trees and shrubs with opposite, compound, toothed leaves  
List of trees and shrubs with opposite, compound, untoothed leaves