Ash tree (El Fresno)

Fraxinus, common name Ash, is a genus of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous though a few subtropical species are evergreen. Genus Fraxinus are the true ashes, and are in Oleaceae, the olive family, along with olives and lilacs.



The Ash tree sheds all its leaves in Autumn.
It is a deciduous tree.



This year you could see the Ash trees go yellow as soon as Autumn started.
They are so beautiful!!! :)



The Ash tree in Summer is full of green leaves.




Ash tree seeds

The seeds, popularly known as keys or helicopter seeds, are a type of fruit known as a samara. The genus Fraxinus contains 45-65 species.




The leaves are opposite (rarely in whorls of three), and mostly pinnately-compound, simple in a few species.



The tree's common English name goes back to the Old English æsc, a word also routinely used in Old English documents to refer to spears made of ash wood.







The wood is hard (a hardwood), dense, tough and very strong but elastic, extensively used for making bows, tool handles, quality wooden baseball bats, hurleys and other uses demanding high strength and resilience.

It is also often used as material for electric guitar bodies and, less commonly, for acoustic guitar bodies, known for its bright, cutting tone and sustaining quality.