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Texas Ash
Fraxinus albicans
Texas ash is a smaller, more compact relative of green ash, native to limestone hills and canyons of the southern Great Plains and northern Mexico, where it grows a rounded crown of glossy compound leaves that turn burgundy to purple in autumn. Clusters of winged seeds follow small spring flowers on female trees, feeding birds and small mammals through fall and winter. It thrives on shallow, rocky, alkaline soil and tolerates drought far better than most ash species, but like its relatives it is vulnerable to the introduced emerald ash borer.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- Not yet recorded
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry · Well-Drained
Vertical layer
Sub-Canopy- Soil pH
- Not yet recorded
- Plant type
- Deciduous Tree
- Mature height
- 30–45 ft
- Mature spread
- 32.8 ft
- Plant spacing
- 20–40 ft
- Root type
- Not yet recorded
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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