blue ash
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Blue Ash. Wayne Kunkel Fraxinus Q uadrangulata. Classification. 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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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BLUE ASH
Wayne Kunkel
Fraxinus Quadrangulata
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ClassificationBlue Ash
Kingdom of the Blue Ash is Plantae The subkingdom is TracheobionataThe super division is
SpermatophytaThe division is MagnoliophyteThe class is MagnoliophytaThe subclass is Asteridae
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Classification continuedThe order is ScrophularialesThe family is OleaceaThe genus is FraxinusThe species Fraxinus Quadrangulata
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Where it is located
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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What it looks like 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
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The bark and fruit Its bark is very different from other ash trees because this trees bark looks shingled or
flaky as it gets older
Figure 3 Picture of a Blue Ash’s bark
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.
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The leaf 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 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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Uses of the Blue Ash 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 bud and twig 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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ReferencesPictures
Figure 1 http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/data/atlas/little/fraxquad.pdf
Figure 2 http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/forest/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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ReferencesPicture
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/trees/imagetrees/ash_bl_lf_lg.jpg
http://www.baseballrampage.com/productphotos/3936_display.jpg figure 7
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Picture reference http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/18/tree
s/imagetrees/ash_bl_bud_lg.jpg figure 8
Text Referencehttp://www.oplin.org/tree/fact%20pages/ash_blue/ash_blue.html
was used to support data I found
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ReferencesText
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/kytreewebsite/pdffiles/Fquadprint.pdf was used for flower info
http://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=profile&symbol=FRQU&display=31 for classification information