#1374 most planted
Fraxinus chinensis
Chinese ash
52
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
8
cities
30 in
median trunk (75 cm, 39 measured)
23 yr
median age (65% have a planting date)
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Fraxinus chinensis, also known as Chinese ash, is a dioecious tree species where male and female flowers are on separate plants. Its leaves are used in traditional Chinese medicine, and it is cultivated for white scale insects used in candle making.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 280.02%23 yr37 in
- 90.00%——
- 40.00%—1.6 in
- 30.00%—1.4 in
- 30.00%—2.0 in
- 20.00%—24 in
- 20.00%——
- 10.00%——
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
- Central Korean deciduous forests
- Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
- Southern Korea evergreen forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
- Northern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests
- South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests
Montane Grasslands & Shrublands
- Southeast Tibet shrublands and meadows
Other Fraxinus in the catalogue
20 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
