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Fraxinus dipetala, the California ash or two-petal ash, is a species of ash native to southwestern North America in the United States in northwestern Arizona, California, southern Nevada, and Utah, and in Mexico in northern Baja California. It grows at altitudes of 100–1,300 m. [1] [2] [3]
Fraxinus uhdei is locally known as fresno blanco in Spanish; other English vernacular names include Hawaiian ash and Mexican ash. [3] The name Shamel ash refers to Archie Shamel, who introduced the trees to California in the 1920s. [7] It is known as urapan in Colombia, where it was introduced in the 1950s. [8]
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Native ash species, including white ash (pictured), have been declining rapidly this century due to predation by the emerald ash borer. [1]Silvics of North America (1991), [2] [3] a forest inventory compiled and published by the United States Forest Service, includes many hardwood trees.
This species is catching on with parks departments looking to replace dying ash trees. Like ash trees, Kentucky coffee trees ( Gymnocladus dioicus ) are tolerant of pollution and a range of soils.
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Fraxinus velutina is a small deciduous tree growing to 10 m tall, with a trunk up to 30 cm diameter. The bark is rough gray-brown and fissured, and the shoots are velvety-downy. The leaves are 10–25 cm long, pinnately compound with five or seven (occasionally three) leaflets 4 cm or more long, with an entire or finely serrated margin.
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