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  Guide to the Common Trees of Pennsylvania

Trees | Glossary | Visual Guide | Leaf Parts, Types, & Position

Black Ash
(Wide & Flat: Opposite Arrangement)
Sometimes called Swamp ash, this medium-sized tree reaches 40'-50' in cool swamps, wet woods and bottomlands throughout Pennsylvania. The wood is generally lighter in weight and weaker than White ash, but is used for the same purposes. Baskets can be woven from slats produced by pounding a wet block of wood until it separates along the annual growth rings. Wood ducks, gamebirds and songbirds and many mammals eat the seeds. Whitetail deer browse the twigs and young foliage.

Black Ash

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Needle-Shaped or Linear

  

Wide & Flat: Opposite Arrangement

Wide and Flat: Alternate Arrangement

Information courtesy of:
PA Department of Conservation & Natural Resources
 
 

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