Transcript Blue Ash - Herrin High School

Wayne Kunkel
Fraxinus
Quadrangulata
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
The order is Scrophulariales
The family is Oleacea
The genus is Fraxinus
The species Fraxinus Quadrangulata
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.
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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
Its bark is very different from
other ash trees because this
trees bark looks shingled or
flaky as it gets older
Figure 4 Picture of the fruit
of a blue ash
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Figure 1
http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/data/atlas/little/fraxq
uad.pdf
Figure 2
http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/fore
st/images/F-quadrinulata.jpg
Figure 3
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/18/trees
/imagetrees/ash_bl_brk_lg.jpg
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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/tre
es/imagetrees/ash_bl_lf_lg.jpg
http://www.baseballrampage.com/productph
otos/3936_display.jpg figure 7
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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_b
lue/ash_blue.html was used to support data I
found
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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/kytre
ewebsite/pdffiles/Fquadprint.pdf was used
for flower info
http://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationSer
vlet?source=profile&symbol=FRQU&display=
31 for classification information