Fraxinus

***Fraxinus*** (/fraksɨnəs/) is a genus o flouerin plants in the olive an lilac faimily, Oleaceae. It contains 45–65 speshies o uisually medium tae lairge trees, maistly deciduous tho a few subtropical speshies is evergreen. The leafs is opposite (rarely in whorls o three), an maistly pinnately compound, semple in a few speshies. The seeds, popularly kent as *keys* or *helicopter seeds*, is a kin o fruit kent as a samara.  Rowans or Muntain Eshes is unrelatit tae true eshes an belang the Genus *[[Sorbus]]* tho the leafs an buds is superfeicially seimilar.

## Selectit speshies
; Eastren North Americae
* *[[Fraxinus americana]]* L. &ndash; White Esh or Autumn Purpie Esh
* *[[Fraxinus caroliniana]]* Mill. &ndash; Carolina Esh
* *[[Fraxinus nigra]]* Marshall &ndash; Esh
* *[[Fraxinus pennsylvanica]]* Marshall Green Esh
* *[[Fraxinus profunda]]* (Bush) Bush &ndash; Pumpkin Esh
* *[[Fraxinus quadrangulata]]* Michx. &ndash; Blue Esh

; Wastren an soothwastren North Americae
* *[[Fraxinus anomala]]* Torr. ex S.Watson &ndash; Singleleaf Esh
* *[[Fraxinus berlandieriana]]* DC. &ndash; Mexican Esh
* *[[Fraxinus cuspidata]]* Torr. &ndash; Fragrant Esh
* *[[Fraxinus dipetala]]* Hook. & Arn. &ndash; Californie Esh or Twa-petal Esh
* *[[Fraxinus dubia]]*
* *[[Fraxinus gooddingii]]* &ndash; Goodding's Esh
* *[[Fraxinus greggii]]* A.Gray &ndash; Gregg's Esh
* *[[Fraxinus latifolia]]* Benth. &ndash; Oregon Esh
* *[[Fraxinus lowellii]]* &ndash; Lowell Esh
* *[[Fraxinus papillosa]]* Lingelsh. &ndash; Chihuahua Esh
* *[[Fraxinus purpusii]]*
* *[[Fraxinus rufescens]]*
* *[[Fraxinus texensis]]* (A.Gray) Sarg. &ndash; Texas Esh
* *[[Fraxinus uhdei]]* (Wenz.) Lingelsh. &ndash; Shamel Esh or Tropical Esh
* *[[Fraxinus velutina]]* Torr. &ndash; Velvet Esh or Arizona Esh

; Wastren Paleairctic (Europe, north Africae an soothwast Asie)
* *[[Fraxinus angustifolia]]* Vahl &ndash; Narrow-leafed Esh
** *[[Fraxinus angustifolia]]* subsp. *oxycarpa* &ndash; Caucasian Esh
* *[[Fraxinus dimorpha]]*
* *[[Fraxinus excelsior]]* L. &ndash; European Esh
* *[[Fraxinus holotricha]]* Koehne
* *[[Fraxinus ornus]]* L. &ndash; Manna Esh or Flouerin Esh
* *[[Fraxinus syriaca]]*
* *[[Fraxinus pallisiae]]* Wilmott &ndash; Pallis' Esh

; Eastren Paleairctic (central an east Asie)
* *[[Fraxinus apertisquamifera]]*
* *[[Fraxinus baroniana]]*
* *[[Fraxinus bungeana]]* DC. &ndash; Bunge's Esh
* *[[Fraxinus chinensis]]* Roxb. &ndash; Cheenese Esh or Korean Esh
* *[[Fraxinus chiisanensis]]*
* *[[Fraxinus floribunda]]* Wall. &ndash; Himalayan Manna Esh
* *[[Fraxinus griffithii]]*C.B.Clarke &ndash; Griffith's Esh
* *[[Fraxinus hubeiensis]]* Ch'u & Shang & Su &ndash; 湖北梣 hu bei qin
* *[[Fraxinus japonica]]* &ndash; Japanese Esh
* *[[Fraxinus lanuginosa]]*
* *[[Fraxinus longicuspis]]*
* *[[Fraxinus malacophylla]]*
* *[[Fraxinus mandschurica]]* Rupr. &ndash; Manchurian Esh
* *[[Fraxinus mariesii]]* &ndash; Maries' Esh
* *[[Fraxinus micrantha]]* Lingelsh.
* *[[Fraxinus paxiana]]* Lingelsh.
* *[[Fraxinus platypoda]]*
* *[[Fraxinus raibocarpa]]* Regel
* *[[Fraxinus sieboldiana]]* Blume &ndash; Japanese Flouerin Esh
* *[[Fraxinus sogdiana Bge]]*
* *[[Fraxinus spaethiana]]* Lingelsh. &ndash; Späth's Esh
* *[[Fraxinus trifoliata]]*
* *[[Fraxinus xanthoxyloides]]* (G.Don) Wall. ex DC. &ndash; Afghan Esh


File:EurAshSeeds.jpg|Closeup o European Esh seeds
File:Fraxinus ornus JPG1b.jpg|*Fraxinus ornus*
File:Treelets on fallen Ash tree.JPG|Unuisual "treelets" growin frae a faaen esh tree in Lawthorn wid, Ayrshire, Scotland


## Footnotes

## Bibliografie
* Philips, Roger (1979). ''Trees of North America and Europe: A Guide to Field Identification, Revised and Updated''. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-50259-0. .

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