What is an ash tree?

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What is an ash tree?

Answer 1

"An ash can be any of four different tree genera from four very distinct families; most commonly in a combined form (e.g. "mountain ash"; see end of page for disambiguation), but originally and most commonly refers to trees of the genus Fraxinus (from Latin "ash tree") in the olive family Oleaceae. The ashes are usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous though a few subtropical species are evergreen. The leaves are opposite (rarely in whorls of three), and mostly pinnately-compound, simple in a few species. The seeds, popularly known as keys, are a type of fruit known as a samara. The tree's common English name goes back to the Old English æsc, a word also routinely used in Old English documents to refer to spears made of ash wood."

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_tree

Answer 2

sorry.cant help. i wish you asked ash tray

Answer 3

It's a deciduous tree which grows to about 100' tall. It looks oval shaped when you look at it from a distance and it has matt black buds before it flowers. It grows throughout Europe and Turkey (I have one in my back garden). It has longish, thin leaves arranged opposite each other and its "fruits" form quarter-inch seed-like things with one wing attached. They whirl through the air and disperse when they're ripe, before germinating into more tree seedlings. It's a nice tree. You can climb it :-)