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Fraxinus velutina (Velvet Ash or Arizona Ash or Modesto Ash) is a species of Fraxinus native to southwestern North America, in the United States from southern California east to Texas, and in Mexico from northern Baja California east to Coahuila and Nuevo Len. It is a small deciduous tree growing to 10 meter tall, with a trunk up to 30 centimeter diameter. The bark is rough gray-brown and fissured, and the shoots are velvety-downy. The leaves are 10-25 centimeter long, pinnately compound with five or seven (occasionally three) leaflets 4 centimeter or more long, with an entire or finely serrated margin. The flowers are produced in small clusters in early spring; it is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate trees. The fruit is a samara 1.5-3 centimeter long, with an apical wing 4-8 millimeter broad.
Tree
30 - 40 ft Tall
Upright
Moderate
Winter Deciduous
Yellow, Green
Spring
Bank stabilization
Full Sun, Partial Shade
Moderate
Fast
Prefers sandy or granular soil of desert riparian areas.
For propagating by seed: 3 mos. stratification.
1, 2*, 3*, 4, 5, 6, 7*, 8*, 9*, 10*, 11*, 12, 14*, 15*, 16*, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Slopes and streambanks
Chaparral, Southern Oak Woodland, Yellow Pine Forest, Wetland-Riparian
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Likely
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Confirmed
Andrena oenotherae
Purple Miner Bee
Andrena prunorum
Black-tailed Bumble Bee
Bombus melanopygus
Fall Webworm Moth
Hyphantria cunea