Yellowish bark , leaves like common ash?

iplogger1 · Hazel Tree Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 19

[img]Hi,

Can anyone ID this tree ?
It has pinnate leaves and budding/flowering features which look
extraordinary like a common ash. However, it has a fairly distinct
smooth yellow/orange bark.

--Ian

http://iplittle.smugmug.com/gallery/1813853_Hhhgc#293943020_PVq83

GPI · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject:

Looks like Golden ash

FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR JASPIDEA

Is is yours iplogger1?

iplogger1 · Hazel Tree Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 19

Thanks GPI.
Yes it is a newly planted tree in our garden. Before it came into leaf
I was speculating it might have been Salix Alba / White Willow on account
of the bark colour but I was intrigued when I saw it bursting into leaf just
like a regular ash ! I'm now pretty sure I've seen one of these in another
garden about 2miles from us and it looks gorgeous in late summer/
autumn when the leaves turn a beautiful golden yellow.

My wife's cousin's husband (if that makes sense) planted it for us along
with some other nice broadleaves in the front garden including paper
bark birches and common birch. I'd been meaning to ask him all
weekend what it was. I think he purchased it in a local garden centre.

--Ian

GPI · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:49 pm Post subject:

iplogger1 · Hazel Tree Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 19

Just revisiting something I mentioned when discussing the golden ash tree. I have realised that the very attractive (to me anyway) tree/shrub which I noticed in a nearby garden in late summer/early autumn last year was not a golden ash but rather a golden elder , sambucus nigra aurea (?).

I don't have one of those in my garden but I must say it has a lovely appearance when it comes into bloom. Any advantages or disadvantages with that shrub/tree variety ?

--Ian

GPI · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject: