Fraxinus excelsior Standard

Origin: Europe, Asia Minor. Majestic, deciduous tree with high, oval or spherical crown and branches wide apart. Imparipinnate leaves, up to 35cm long, made up of numerous toothed, dark green leaflets. Tiny, blackish-purple flowers in spring before the leaves (which appear late) on the nodes of all the small branchlets. Fruit: samaras with one wing grouped in dense, pendulous bunches. Flourishes in all types of soil but grows more vigorously in fertile, cool, deep soil.

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