Asian Flowering Ash
Fraxinus sieboldiana · Oleaceae · 쇠물푸레나무
Look
- Leaves
- Odd-pinnate compound leaves with 5 to 9 egg-shaped leaflets, 5 to 10 cm long and 1.5 to 3.5 cm wide. Green or reddish green and hairless above, with white hairs on the midrib underneath, toothed margins, and a groove on the upper surface of the main leaf stalk.
- Flowers
- In May, white flowers grow in panicles 6 to 12 cm long from the tips of new twigs or leaf axils; the petals are linear and as long as the stamens.
- Fruit
- Linear-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate samaras about 2 cm long including the wing, ripening reddish purple in September.
- Bark
- Smooth gray to gray-brown bark; one-year-old twigs are gray-brown with fine hairs when young.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native (Korean Peninsula)
- Native to
- Found in Japan; in Korea it grows south of Hwanghae-do and Gyeonggi-do (also confirmed in a very few areas of Gangwon-teukbyeoljachi-do).
- Ecology
- Strongly cold-hardy, so it overwinters even in the central inland region, but is weak against air pollution. Grows on dry mountain slopes.