Ash
Fraxinus excelsior L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 23 m
- wide
- 20 m
Oleaceae
Also called European ash
When it flowers
JFMAMJJASOND
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 21 m to 24 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 12–18 m; Plants for a Future 30–30 m
- Spread
- 20 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Russian
- Ясень обыкновенный
- Samogitian
- Ousis
- Slovak
- Jaseň štíhly
- Slovenian
- veliki jesen
- Serbian
- Бели јасен
- Turkish
- Adi dişbudak
- Ukrainian
- Ясен звичайний
- Venetian
- Fràssene
- Chinese
- 欧梣
- German
- Esche, Gemeine Esche, Gewöhnliche Esche
- Portuguese
- Freixo
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Ask
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.5
- 3D model: Fraxinus excelsior (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.