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Blue Ash

Blue Ash. Wayne Kunkel Fraxinus Q uadrangulata. Classification. Blue Ash Kingdom of the Blue Ash is Plantae The subkingdom is Tracheobionata The super division is Spermatophyta The division is Magnoliophyte The class is Magnoliophyta The subclass is Asteridae.

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Blue Ash

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  1. Blue Ash Wayne Kunkel FraxinusQuadrangulata

  2. Classification Blue Ash Kingdom of the Blue Ash is Plantae The subkingdom is Tracheobionata The super division is Spermatophyta The division is Magnoliophyte The class is Magnoliophyta The subclass is Asteridae

  3. Classification continued The order is Scrophulariales The family is Oleacea The genus is Fraxinus The species FraxinusQuadrangulata

  4. Where it is located Figure 1 The shaded area is where the tree can be found more specifically its habitat is near limestone because of the PH level from it.

  5. What it looks like • It can be up to 80 feet tall • Can get up to 40 feet wide • Is considered narrow upright or rounded upright • Can be a very good tree for shade Figure 2 shows the tree being in a very straight position

  6. The bark and fruit Its bark is very different from other ash trees because this trees bark looks shingled or flaky as it gets older The tree is both male and female so a tree can pollinate it self and produce seeds. The seeds of a Blue Ash are flatter then the other Ash’s tree. Figure 3 Picture of a Blue Ash’s bark Figure 4 Picture of the fruit of a blue ash

  7. The leaf • The leaves are pinnately compound and have several leaves usually 7-11 leaves that are opposites, aren’t alternated. The leaflets margins can vary, they can be toothed smooth or serrated finely. Figure 5 A Blue Ash leaf shown, it is narrow but can also be wide leafed.

  8. The flower • The flower is a small flower that blooms with the leaves and doesn’t have petals. • It’s a perfect flower meaning it has both male and female characteristics. • Very unnoticeable in general Figure 6 The flower is at the end of the ash tree, is very unnoticeable and not much to look at

  9. Uses of the Blue Ash • Early pioneers used its inner bark to make a blue dye, when the inner bark was exposed to air it turned blue. • Now the Blue Ash is used similarly to the White Ash for its wood to make tools and baseball bats and furniture because it is so dense. Figure 7 A baseball bat made out of Ash wood

  10. The bud and twig • The most noticeable difference in the Blue Ash is that its twigs are very rectangular. This disappears as the twig grows. • This picture also shows the bud at the end which is horseshoe shaped. Figure 8 This picture clearly shows how the sides of the twig are like a rectangle and the horseshoe shape the bud has

  11. ReferencesPictures • Figure 1 http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/data/atlas/little/fraxquad.pdf • Figure 2 http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/forest/images/F-quadrinulata.jpg • Figure 3 http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/18/trees/imagetrees/ash_bl_brk_lg.jpg

  12. ReferencesPicture • Figure 4 http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/18/trees/imagetrees/ash_bl_sd_lg.jpg • Figure 5,6http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/18/trees/imagetrees/ash_bl_lf_lg.jpg • http://www.baseballrampage.com/productphotos/3936_display.jpg figure 7

  13. Picture reference • http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/18/trees/imagetrees/ash_bl_bud_lg.jpg figure 8 Text Reference http://www.oplin.org/tree/fact%20pages/ash_blue/ash_blue.html was used to support data I found

  14. ReferencesText • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinus was used for classification • http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/trees/ash_bl/tabid/5329/Default.aspx for heights shapes and identifying features, also for uses • http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Horticulture/kytreewebsite/pdffiles/Fquadprint.pdf was used for flower info • http://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=profile&symbol=FRQU&display=31 for classification information

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