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Fraxinus profunda (
Pumpkin Ash; syn.
F. tomentosa Michx.) is a species of
Fraxinus (ash) native to eastern
North America, primarily in the
United States, with a scattered distribution on the Atlantic coastal plain and interior lowland river valleys from southern
Maryland northwest to
Indiana, southeast to northern
Florida, and southwest to southeastern
Missouri to
Louisiana, and also locally in the extreme south of
Canada in
Essex County,
Ontario.
It is a medium-sized
deciduous tree reaching 12–30 m tall with a trunk up to 1 m diameter. The
bark is gray, thick and fissured. The winter buds are dark brown to blackish, with a velvety texture. The
leaves are opposite, pinnate, with 7–9 leaflets; each leaf is 25–40 cm long, the leaflets 8–20 cm long and 5–8 cm broad, with a finely toothed margin; they're downy on the underside and along the rachis. The leaflets are stalked, with a short
petiolule. The
flowers are produced in
panicles in spring shortly before the new leaves; they're inconspicuous purplish-green with no petals, and are wind-pollinated. The
fruit is a
samara; it's the largest of any North American ash species, 5–8 cm long, comprising a single
seed with an elongated apical wing 9 mm broad.
[
]Ecology
It occurs primarily in swamps. Pumpkin Ash is a food plant for the larvae of several species of Lepidoptera; see List of Lepidoptera that feed on ashes. It is also seriously threatened by the invasive Asian emerald ash borer.[Further Information]
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