Arizona Ash
Fraxinus velutina Torr.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 12 m
- wide
- 9.1 m
Oleaceae
Also called Velvet ash, Velvet Ash
Formerly Fraxinus attenuata, Fraxinus coriacea, Fraxinus standleyi, Fraxinus toumeyi
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. & SC. U.S.A. to MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Southern Nevada Water Authority, one source
- Height
- 11 m to 14 mRead from Southern Nevada Water Authority, one source
- Spread
- 7.6 m to 11 mRead from Southern Nevada Water Authority, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Southern Nevada Water Authority, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from Southern Nevada Water Authority, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Chinese
- 光叶毡毛梣, 毡毛梣, 绒毛梣
- Simplified Chinese
- 杜氏毡毛梣, 绒毛梣
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Southern Nevada Water Authority, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Fraxinus velutina (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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