#common ash

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 29 September 2024

A native deciduous tree for woodland and coastal gardens is Fraxinus excelsior (common ash). Here this vigorous tree was growing on the coastline and creating a feature. Unfortunately Hymenoscyphus fraxineus (ash dieback), a lethal fungal disease of ash, presents a substantial threat to this species. It was detected in the UK for the first time in 2012 and is now very widespread. Fortunately this specimen on the Black Isle, Scotland, looked free from infection.

Jill Raggett

[manymoretrees]

[paeonia-green]

Seeds of the Common Ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior).

[oakapples]

I was feeling sad about ash dieback so I drew a wheel of European language names for the tree centred on <s>. (Note the use of 'so' in that sentence; I'm trying to rationalise my actions.)

In response to the comment (- it's so annoying that you can't reply to comments directly...): That's interesting; I only included Indo-European names, but maybe the <s> is even older than the divergence of Indo-European and Finno-Ugric proto-languages!