GLEBE TREES AND SHRUBS


Ash (Fraxinus)

Leaves

May 8, 2008. May 25, 2008

Bark

May 7, 2008; Fletcher's - arboretum

Flowers

April 26, 2008; 510 Queen Elizabeth Drive. May 8, 2008

Fruit

June 21, 2008; Queen Elizabeth Drive at Broadway.

Buds

April 15, 2009. Queen Elizabeth Drive. I am told that most of the ash in the Glebe are green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica). This is said to be a hairless version of red ash. But there are hybrids and the City of Ottawa arborists now consider them equivalent. (2009).

Similar species

Red elderberry and elder: these also have opposite, compound leaves. They do not grow as tall as ash, and do not have the diamond pattern on mature bark. Flowers are very different. Mountain ash, butternut, black walnut, honey locust and sumac all have compound leaves but in an alternate pattern. List of trees and shrubs with opposite, compound, toothed leaves List of trees and shrubs with opposite, compound, untoothed leaves