Tree Handbook

Rio Grande Ash

Back Home Up Next

Montezuma Baldcypress
Texas Sabal Palm
Black Willow
Coyote Willow
Live Oak
Granjeno
Sugar Hackberry
Cedar Elm
Texas Ebony
Tenaza
Texas Huisache
Wright's Catclaw
Guajillo
Tepeguaje
Honey Mesquite
Retama
Texas Paloverde
Mescal Bean
Guayacan
Jopoy
Colima
Western Soapberry
Brasil
Coma Del Sur
Chapote
Rio Grande Ash
Anacahuita
Anacua

RIO GRANDE ASH Fresno
Fraxinum berlandieriana - Oleaceae, Olive Family

DESCRIPTION: 
  • Medium-sized, ornamental tree with handsome foliage and broad, rounded crown.

  • Height: 30 feet; can grow to 60 feet.

  • Flowers: Small, greenish; in spring before leafing.

  • Fruit: I to 11/2-inch elongated winged seed.

  • Foliage: Deciduous; grayish-green to bright-green leaves.

  • Bark: Gray to light brown, darkening with age.

  • Growth rate: Rapid.

REQUIREMENTS:
  • Sun: Partial shade to full sun.

  • Soil.- Loamy.

  • Drainage: Poor to moderate.

  • Water: Moderate.

  • Maintenance: Resistant to root-rot; should NOT be topped; occasionally infested by webworms; leaf-cutter ants are attracted to foliage.
    Propagation: Seed.

NATIVE HABITAT: 

Near rivers and resacas.

WILDLIFE USE: 

Nest sites; Plain Chachalacas rely on erupting buds when other foods
are scarce. 


COMMENTS: 

Fuel; medicinal uses. Marketed heavily through South Texas under the misnomer "Arizona Ash" (another species); most abused of all native trees by tree toppers.

 

 

Back Home Up Next

 
Content by the Native Plant Project - P.O. Box 2742 - San Juan, TX  78589
All Rights Reserved
Revised: May 15, 2012
 This site designed and maintained by Bert Wessling ( bwessling AT gmail DOT com ) Comments Welcomed.