Siebold's flower ash
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Siebold's flower ash ( Fraxinus Sieboldiana ) is a tree and shrub species from the genus of ash in the olive family . Their natural range is in China, South Korea and Japan.
description
Siebold's flower ash is a large shrub or small, heavily branched deciduous tree that usually reaches a height of only 5 meters. The twigs are thin, gray and hairy with fine glands. The terminal buds are gray. The leaves are 10 to 15 centimeters long, composed and consist of five to seven, rarely only three, sessile or short-stalked leaflets . The leaflets are 2.5 to 8 inches long and 1.5 to 4.5 inches wide, ovate to lanceolate, pointed or pointed with a rounded base. The upper side of the leaf is green and glabrous, the underside is hairy at the base of the midrib. About seven to 10 pairs of leaf veins are formed. The leaf margin is slightly serrated. The petiole is reddish, 2 to 3 centimeters long and, like the inflorescence stalks, finely hairy glandular. The flowers are polygamous and stand in terminal and axillary panicles 9 to 15 centimeters long . The sepals are very small and toothed. Four, about 5 to 7 millimeters long, white petals are formed. The flowers appear after the leaves in June. The fruits are 2 centimeters long, winged nuts with a round cross-section , the wing edge of which runs down to the upper third.
Distribution and ecology
The distribution area of Siebold's flower ash extends from Jiangxi in China via South Korea to Japan. There it thrives in species-poor forests and groups of trees or in dry forests on dry to fresh, acidic to slightly alkaline, sandy to sandy-humic soils in sunny locations. It loves warmth and is frost hardy . It grows at heights of 500 to 1200 meters.
Systematics
Siebold's flower ash ( Fraxinus Sieboldiana ) is a species from the genus of the ash ( Fraxinus ) from the olive family (Oleaceae). It is assigned to the Ornus section . A synonym of the species is Fraxinus mariesii Hook. f.
use
Siebold's flower ash is rarely used as an ornamental shrub because of its decorative and fragrant flowers .
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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. 312.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Roloff et al .: Flora of the Woods , p. 312
- ↑ a b Fraxinus Sieboldiana. In: Flora of China Vol. 15. www.eFloras.org, accessed on December 28, 2010 (English).
- ^ Fraxinus Sieboldiana. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 28, 2010 .
