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Fraxinus ornus (
Manna Ash) is a species of
Fraxinus native to southern
Europe and southwestern
Asia, from
Spain and
Italy north to
Austria and the
Czech Republic, and east through the
Balkans,
Turkey, and western
Syria to the
Lebanon.
It is a medium-sized
deciduous tree growing to 15–25 m tall with a trunk up to 1 m diameter. The
bark is dark grey, remaining smooth even on old trees. The
buds are pale pinkish-brown to grey-brown, with a dense covering of short grey hairs. The
leaves are in opposite pairs, pinnate, 20-30 cm long, with 5-9 leaflets; the leaflets are broad ovoid, 5-10 cm long and 2-4 cm broad, with a finely serrated and wavy margin, and short but distinct
petiolules 5–15 mm long; the autumn colour is variable, yellow to purplish. The
flowers are produced in dense
panicles 10–20 cm long after the new leaves appear in late spring, each flower with four slender creamy white petals 5–6 mm long; they're pollinated by
insects. The
fruit is a slender
samara 1.5-2.5 cm long, the seed 2 mm broad and the wing 4–5 mm broad, green ripening brown.
Cultivation and uses
A
sugary extract from the sap is extracted by making a cut in the bark;) with the biblical
manna, giving rise to the English name of the tree.
It is frequently grown as an
ornamental tree in Europe north of its native range, grown for its decorative flowers (the species is also sometimes called "Flowering Ash"). Some cultivated specimens are
grafted on rootstocks of
Fraxinus excelsior, with an often very conspicuous change in the bark at the graft line to the fissured bark of the rootstock species.
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