Bungy flower ash

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Bungy flower ash
Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Olive family (Oleaceae)
Genre : Ash trees ( Fraxinus )
Type : Bungy flower ash
Scientific name
Fraxinus bungeana
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Bunge flowering ash ( Fraxinus bungeana ) is a shrub from the genus of the ash . Its natural range is north China.

description

Bunges flower ash is a shrub that can reach a height of 3 to 5 meters. The twigs are thin and finely hairy, the terminal buds are small and brown to blackish brown. The leaves are 2 to 15 centimeters long, composed and consist of three to seven, mostly five leaflets on stems 0.2 to 1.5 centimeters long. The leaflets are glabrous, 2 to 5 centimeters long and 1.5 to 3 centimeters wide, ovate to almost circular, briefly pointed with a broad wedge-shaped base. They have four to six pairs of leaf veins. The leaf stalk becomes 1.5 to 4.5 inches long and is finely haired. The flowers are dioecious . They are white, stalked about 3 millimeters long and stand in dainty, terminal panicles . Petals are present. Flowering time is from June to July. The fruit is 1.5 to 2 centimeters long, winged nut fruits with an elliptical cross-section , the wing edge of which runs down to the middle.

Distribution and ecology

The distribution area of ​​Bunges Flower Ash is in the north of China. There it thrives as steppe wood and in dry forests on moderately dry to fresh, weakly acidic to alkaline, sandy-loamy to loamy, nutrient-rich soils in sunny and hot locations. It is sensitive to frost . You can find them at altitudes of up to 1500 meters.

Systematics

Bunges flower ash ( Fraxinus bungeana ) is a species from the genus of ash trees ( Fraxinus ) from the olive family (Oleaceae). It is assigned to the Ornus section .

use

Bungee ash is rarely used as an ornamental shrub because of its decorative flowers .

proof

literature

  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 307.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 307
  2. ↑ a b Fraxinus bungeana. In: Flora of China Vol. 15. www.eFloras.org, p. 277 , accessed on December 28, 2010 (English).
  3. ↑ Fraxinus bungeana. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 28, 2010 .