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Fraxinus ornus
Also called Flowering Ash, Manna, South European Flowering Ash
Manna ash is a medium-sized deciduous tree from southern Europe and southwest Asia, grown for its showy spring flowers. It does best in full sun with reasonably moist, well-drained soil, and it is hardy in temperate climates.
Fraxinus ornus, the manna ash or South European flowering ash, is a species of Fraxinus native to Southern Europe and Southwestern Asia, from Spain and Italy north to Austria and the Czech Republic, and east through the Balkans, Turkey, and western Syria to Lebanon and Armenia.
Fraxinus ornus is frequently grown as an ornamental tree in Europe north of its native range for its decorative flowers—the species is also sometimes called "flowering ash". Some cultivated specimens are grafted on rootstocks of Fraxinus excelsior, with an often very conspicuous change in the bark at the graft line to the fissured bark of the rootstock species.
A sugary extract from the sap may be obtained from the bark of the tree; which was compared to biblical manna in late medieval times (attested circa 1400 AD), giving rise to the name of the tree in English, Spanish (fresno del maná), and Italian (frassino da manna). Likewise, the sugar alcohol mannitol derives its name from the extract.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fraxinus ornus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
