White Ash

Description

Tree reaching 50' to 80' in height (to 120') with spread of similar proportions. Weakly pyramidal toupright-oval in youth, in old age developing an open and rather round-topped crown. Bark ashy-gray togray-brown, furrowed into close diamond-shaped areas separated by narrow interlacing ridges; on very old trees slightly scaly along the ridges. Fall color yellow to deep purple and maroon; color develops early. Flowers dioecious (possibly polygamo-dioecious), usually unisexual, green to purple, apetalous, both sexes appearing in panicles before or with the leaves, not ornamentally important, calyx minute, campanulate, corolla absent; borne in April.