Fraxinus chinensis

Chinese ash is in the olive or Oleaceae family and is native to China, the Koreas, Japan, Vietnam and parts of Russia. It grows up to 20 m in height.

The subspecies F. chinensis subsp. rhynchophylla has been planted in a variety of botanical gardens in Europe and North America.

• Branches are covered with hairs; buds are light brown, covered with brown hairs.
• Leaves are deciduous, pinnately compound, 12–35 cm long, with 3–7 (9) leaflets, ovate to lanceolate or elliptic, 4–16 cm long and 2–7 cm broad, papery, glabrous, with small hairs, petiole up to 1.5 cm long.
• Tree is dioecious, inflorescences are terminal or auxiliary on current growth, 5-10 cm long. 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 2.5–4 cm long and up to 1.5 cm across, developing from July to October.