Although perhaps not in cultivation in Britain at the present time, this ash deserves mention as the only American representative of the section Ornus. Leaflets five to nine, lanceolate to ovate, 11⁄2 to 21⁄4 in. long, up to 1 in. wide, acute or acuminately tapered at the apex, glabrous, distinctly stalked. Flowers in glabrous panicles. Petals four, linear, 1⁄2 in. or slightly more long, united at the base into a short tube. It is a shrub or small tree, native to the south-western USA and N. Mexico.
Fraxinus cuspidata Torr.
Genus
Other species in the genus
- Fraxinus americana L.
- Fraxinus angustifolia Vahl
- Fraxinus anomala Torr.
- Fraxinus biltmoreana Beadle
- Fraxinus bungeana DC.
- Fraxinus caroliniana Mill.
- Fraxinus chinensis Roxb.
- Fraxinus dipetala Hook. & Arn.
- Fraxinus elonza Kirchn.
- Fraxinus excelsior L.
- Fraxinus floribunda Wall.
- Fraxinus griffithii C. B. Clarke
- Fraxinus holotricha Koehne
- Fraxinus latifolia Benth.
- Fraxinus longicuspis Sieb. & Zucc.
- Fraxinus mandshurica Rupr.
- Fraxinus mariesii Hook. f.
- Fraxinus nigra Marsh.
- Fraxinus obliqua Tausch
- Fraxinus ornus L.
- Fraxinus oxycarpa
- Fraxinus pallisiae
- Fraxinus paxiana Lingelsh.
- Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh.
- Fraxinus platypoda Oliver
- Fraxinus pubinervis Blume
- Fraxinus quadrangulata Michx.
- Fraxinus rotundifolia Mill.
- Fraxinus sieboldiana Blume
- Fraxinus sogdiana Bunge
- Fraxinus spaethiana Lingelsh.
- Fraxinus syriaca Boiss.
- Fraxinus texensis (A. Gray) Sarg.
- Fraxinus tomentosa Michx.
- Fraxinus 'Veltheimii'
- Fraxinus velutina Torr.
- Fraxinus xanthoxyloides [G. Don] DC.