Red ash

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Red ash
Red ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica), autumn colors

Red ash ( Fraxinus pennsylvanica ), autumn colors

Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Olive family (Oleaceae)
Genre : Ash trees ( Fraxinus )
Type : Red ash
Scientific name
Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Marshall

The red ash ( Fraxinus pennsylvanica ), also Pensylvanische ash , swamp ash or green ash called, is a plant of the genus of ash trees ( Fraxinus ) in the family of Olive Family (Oleaceae). The red ash differs from the similar white ash in the thin, hairy branches. The undersides of the leaves are green (silver-green in the case of the white ash).

description

bark
Pinnate leaf and bark

Vegetative characteristics

The red ash grows as a deciduous tree that usually reaches heights of 15 to 25 m (maximum up to 45 m) and trunk diameters of up to 60 cm. In young twigs the bark is brown, gray or green, glabrous or downy to woolly hairy, later (in the second to fourth year) it is glabrous or downy hairy. The thick bark is furrowed and peeling off. The fluffy hairy reddish-brown winter buds are conical, ovoid or ovoid-conical with a length of 3 to 5 mm.

The more or less constantly against arranged on the branches leaves are with petiole and leaf blade total of 15 to 30 cm long. The angular petiole and rachis are hairy bald to downy. The imparipinnate leaf blade usually has 7 to 9 (5 to 11) short-stalked to sessile pinnate leaves , which are 5 to 15 (to 18) cm long and 1.2 to 9 cm wide, lanceolate, oblong, oval or are ovate with smooth, notched, or serrated edges. The upper side is green to yellow-green and bare, the underside is green, bare to downy hairy. Stipules are missing. Fraxinus pennsylvanica are one of the tree species that start their autumn colors the earliest (early September in North America) and their foliage turns golden-yellow.

Inflorescences and flowers

inflorescence

The red ash is dioecious ( diocesan ). At the same time as the new leaves appear in spring, the flowers appear in compact, panicle inflorescences. The unisexual flowers are very small and have no bracts . Pollination takes place by the wind ( anemophilia ).

Fruits and seeds

Fruit cluster

Many winged, single-seeded nuts (samara) that are 2.5 to 7.5 cm long are formed in fruit stands . The nut fruit is 1.5 to 3 cm long. The wings are 2 to 4 cm long and 3 to 7 mm wide.

Chromosome number

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 46.

Occurrence

Distribution area of ​​the red ash on the North American continent

The red ash has the largest distribution area of ​​the North American ash species . The northern border runs from Nova Scotia to Alberta and Montana , the southern border from northern Florida to Texas . It rises in the Appalachian Mountains to an altitude of 900 m above sea level. NN. The red ash occurs mainly in alluvial forests , on damp alluvial soils and swamps. However, it also tolerates relatively dry and even slightly alkaline soils and is therefore used for plantings in the prairie and for mining cultivation. It is a character species of the order Ulmen-Silberahornwälder (Ulmo-Aceretalia saccharini).

In the temperate latitudes , the red ash is hardy and is occasionally used as an ornamental wood in parks and gardens. It has a tendency to feral and in some areas it is considered a critical invasive plant . In Germany, too, it is already indicated as naturalized for some federal states. At the beginning of the 20th century, the red ash was also planted in the floodplain forests on the Middle Elbe for forestry reasons .

Diseases

The rust fungus Puccinia sparganioides attacks the red ash.

Systematics

Fraxinus pennsylvanica was first published in 1785 by Humphry Marshall in Arbustrum Americanum , pp. 51-52 . Some authors differentiated between two varieties : Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marshall var. Pennsylvanica and Fraxinus pennsylvanica var. Lanceolata (Borkh.) Sarg. however, they are no longer validated in the latest publications. Synonyms for Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marshall are: Fraxinus juglandifolia var. Aucubifolia H. Jaeger , Fraxinus lanceolata Borkh. , Fraxinus pennsylvanica f. aucubifolia (H. Jaeger) Rehder , Fraxinus pennsylvanica var. lanceolata (Borkh.) coffin. , Fraxinus pennsylvanica var. Subintegerrima (Vahl) Fernald , Fraxinus pubescens Lam. , Fraxinus pennsylvanica belongs to section Melioides from the genus of the Fraxinus .

use

The wood of the red ash is used in a similar way to that of the common ash .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Common Trees of the North Carolina Piedmont: Fraxinus pennsylvanica
  2. ^ Northern Ontario Plant Database: Fraxinus pennsylvanica
  3. ^ Fraxinus pennsylvanica at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
  4. ^ Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp.  748 .
  5. ↑ F. Wolfgang Bomble: Critical and little-known species of vascular plants in the Aachen region III. Yearbook of the Bochum Botanical Association. Vol. 6, 2015, pp. 13–21 PDF (2 MB)
  6. ↑ problems Fraxinus pennsylvanica. (PDF) WWF Germany , accessed on April 25, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Ash Rust. University of Delaware. Online Fact Sheet ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / extension.udel.edu
  8. ^ Germplasm Resources Information Network: Fraxinus pennsylvanica

Web links

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