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Garden tree identification

ifconfig · 2008-05-12 12:00:11

Can anyone identify the garden tree shown here ? It's pinnate leave structure and the way the leaves are beginning to bud looks very like what is seen on a mature ash tree (fraxinus excelsior, common ash rather than rowan/mountain ash). However, it's bark is quite distinctive (yellowy orange and smooth). I've attached a…

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12-05-2008 1:00pm

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ifconfig

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Can anyone identify the garden tree shown here ?
It's pinnate leave structure and the way the leaves are beginning to
bud looks very like what is seen on a mature ash tree (fraxinus
excelsior, common ash rather than rowan/mountain ash).

However, it's bark is quite distinctive (yellowy orange and smooth).

I've attached a photo taken with my camera phone

-ifc

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#2 13-05-2008 3:11pm
KAGY

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Definitely an ash, probably a cultivar such as "Fraxinus excelsior 'Aurea'", the
Yellow European ash.

PS; this probably should have been posted into the gardening forurm rather than the DIY.

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