How Do You Identify An Ash Tree?
The Ash tree is part of the royal family of American trees and can be found over much of our land. It is beautiful and valuable both for a landscape tree and for the excellent raw materials that it provides. Identifying the Ash tree is as easy as falling off the proverbial log. Whether we are looking for the White Ash (Fraxinus Americana) or the Green Ash (fraxinus Pennsylvanica) the identifying characteristics are the same. If you are interested in trees and in learning to identify them then there is a wealth of information on the net and links to some of these sites are referenced. The best way is to buy a good field book on trees and head out into the woods. You’ll be surprised at how many Ash trees are around if you live in the coverage zone. Links are provided to field guides and other information on this subject. Look at the bark. Ash trees – no matter what the species – have a distinctive diamond pattern of the bark. Some other trees have a similar pattern but not quite the same
