Fraxinus pennsylvanica SEEDS

Fraxinus pennsylvanica seeds grow into the green ash the most widely distributed and adaptable native ash in North America, native to the temperate biome of central and eastern Canada and the United States from Alberta and Manitoba east to Nova Scotia and south through the entire eastern USA to the Gulf coast and Texas. One of the fastest-growing native North American hardwood trees, producing strong, elastic, white wood used for tool handles, oars, baseball bats and furniture. Currently under severe threat across its entire range from the Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis), a wood-boring beetle of East Asian origin that has devastated ash populations across North America since its accidental introduction, and is now spreading into Europe. Family Oleaceae.

Full sun; very adaptable to a wide range of soils from dry uplands to wet bottomlands; cold-hardy; fast-growing.

• Most widely distributed North American ash tolerates a wider range of soils than any other ash
• Fast-growing strong elastic hardwood used for baseball bats, tool handles, oars
• Central & E. Canada to W. Central & E. U.S.A. temperate biome; enormous range
• Severely threatened by the Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) across all of North America
• Full sun; cold-hardy; fast-growing; adaptable from dry to wet soils; Family Oleaceae

Fraxinus pennsylvanica is the green ash North America’s most adaptable and widely distributed ash tree, a fast-growing hardwood of enormous ecological and commercial importance that is now facing an existential conservation crisis from the Emerald Ash Borer spreading from East Asia across North America and into Europe.

IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.