Long-tipped ash

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Long-tipped ash
Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Olive family (Oleaceae)
Genre : Ash trees ( Fraxinus )
Type : Long-tipped ash
Scientific name
Fraxinus longicuspis
Siebold & Zucc.

The Langspitzige ash ( Fraxinus longicuspis ) is a deciduous tree art from the genus of the ash in the family Oleaceae . Their natural range is in China and Japan.

description

The long-tipped ash is a small tree that reaches a height of 20 meters, but often remains shrubby . The twigs are gray-brown and bluntly square. The terminal buds are brown and hairy. The sheets are 10 to 20 seldom to 25 centimeters long, composed and consist of five to seven seldom to nine clearly stalked leaflets . The leaflets are 5 to 12 inches long, often pointed long and sickle-shaped with a wedge-shaped to rounded base. The leaf margin is serrated and serrated. The underside of the leaf is more or less densely hairy. The flowers are polygamously distributed and stand in bare, terminal panicles . Petals are missing. The flowers appear with the leaves in May. The fruits are 2.5 to 3 centimeters long, winged nuts with an elliptical cross-section , the wing edge of which runs down more or less to the middle.

Distribution and ecology

The distribution area of ​​the long-pointed ash is in China in the province of Sichuan and in Japan without Hokkaidō . There it thrives in floodplain and bank trees on moderately dry, fresh to moist, neutral to alkaline, sandy-gravelly, very nutrient-rich soils in sunny locations. It tolerates heat, but is only moderately frost hardy .

Systematics

The long-pointed ash ( Fraxinus longicuspis ) is a species from the genus of the ash ( Fraxinus ) in the olive family (Oleaceae). It is assigned to the Ornus section .

use

The long-tipped ash is rarely used because of its wood.

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. 309.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 309
  2. ↑ Fraxinus longicuspis. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 30, 2010 .