Manchurian ash
Fraxinus mandshurica · Oleaceae · 들메나무
Look
- Leaves
- Odd-pinnate compound leaves with 3 to 17 leaflets (usually 9 to 11), long elliptic-ovate, 7 to 22 cm long and 3 to 6 cm wide, without leaflet stalks. There are brown hairs on the veins and lower part of the underside, and the leaf axis is winged.
- Flowers
- Blooms in April in compound racemes on the leaf axils of the previous year's twigs, without a perianth.
- Fruit
- A long elliptic-lanceolate samara 2.5 to 4 cm long, maturing in September to October.
- Bark
- Smooth with slight lengthwise furrows; one-year-old twigs are greenish-brown with white spots and flattened on one side. The terminal bud is dark brown.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native (Korean Peninsula)
- Native to
- Found in Japan and China; in Korea it grows from Pyeongan-namdo/bukdo and Hamgyeong-namdo/bukdo through the Baekdudaegan in Gangwon to Deogyusan in Jeonbuk.
- Ecology
- Grows well in wet ground in deep mountain valleys or fertile, moist, well-aerated sites, mixed with ash, alder and dogwood or forming its own stands; in the north of the central region it is also common along low streams. Shade-tolerant when young but needs sun when larger, and is very cold hardy.