Fraxinus excelsior "pendula"

- Family: Oleaceae
- Origen: native to Europe and Asia Minor
- Interesting facts: the leaves are prepared in herbal teas as a laxative and diuretic. It is combined with other plants to make an anti-rheumatic herbal tea. It is used in carpentry and joinery, clogs, sporting goods and tools of many kinds, wagon parts, machine frames, stairs. It was once used to manufacture wheels and cart bodies

A deciduous tree with a normal height of 8 to 12 m, but capable of reaching 40m.

Opposite leaves comprised of 9-13 sessile, oblong-lanceolate leaflets, with a serrated edge, measuring 5-11 cm long and 2.5-3.3 cm wide. The are glabrous and dark green in the bundle and paler, with some pubescence along the central vein on the underside.

They flower in spring, from March to April or May, before new leaves sprout, and the samaras ripen in autumn. Flowers in axillary clusters, early. No perianth present and 2 stamens.

Fruit in oblong-lanceolate samara, bulbous, obliquely truncated or notched at the apex. They ripen in autumn between September and October, sometimes remaining unchanged throughout the winter. Oblong, unilocular aborted seed.

Source: redjaen.es