| Scientific Name: | Fraxinus excelsior |
| Common Name: | common ash, European ash |
| Family Name: | Oleaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 15 - 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Specimen plant, Street (boulevard tree), Tall background, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Elliptic, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Green, Purple, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Samara, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Tree stout; branches grey; leaves opposite, pinnately compound, 25-30cm long; leaflets (7-)9 or 11(-13) per leaf, ovate-lanceolate-oblong, most 5-10cm long x 2-3cm wide, margin serrate, sessile; flowers tiny, purple, April-May; samaras 2.5-4.5 cm long x 5-8 mm wide. Winter ID: buds like fuzzy dark 'chocolate chips' to nearly black, mostly rounded, about 5mm long, bases of end buds may touch the pointy terminal bud, leaf scar cresent shaped to half round with a notch for the bud; vein scars are very numerous in a crescent or U-shaped line. | |