Fraxinus angustifolia

Narrow-leafed ash is in the olive or Oleaceae family and is native to central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia.

• Leaves are in opposite pairs or in whorls of three, pinnate, 15–25 cm long, with 3–13 leaflets, the leaflets being distinctively slender, 3–8 cm long and 1–1.5 cm broad, with short stocks.
• Flowers are inconspicuous with no petals, produced in inflorescences which can be male, hermaphrodite or mixed male and hermaphrodite.
• Fruit when fully formed is a samara 3–4 cm long, the seed 1.5–2 cm long with a pale brown wing 1.5–2 cm long.
• Buds are pale brown, often whorls of three, which readily distinguishes it from the related F. excelsior (black buds; opposite) even in winter.
• The cultivar F. angustifolia subsp. Oxycarpacan be identified by leaflets with white hairs on the lower half of the midribs.