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  White ash
The reasons for white ash being the most popular wood for these items is that it is tough and does not break under large amounts of strain.
White ash is found north into Canada, south to northern Florida and west to eastern Texas.
White ash is a large tree that reaches 70' to 80' in height.
www.sfrc.ufl.edu /4h/White_ash/whiteash.htm   (329 words)

  
  White Ash Tree   (Site not responding. Last check: )
White ash (Fraxinus americana), also called Biltmore ash or Biltmore white ash, is the most common and useful native ash but is never a dominant species in the forest.
Because white ash wood is tough, strong, and highly resistant to shock, it is particularly sought for handles, oars, and baseball bats.
White ash grows naturally from Nova Scotia to northern Florida in the east, and eastern Minnesota south to eastern Texas at the western edge of its range.
www.landscape-america.com /landscapes/trees/white_ash.html   (383 words)

  
 Plant Information Center - NC Trees - White Ash
White ash is found throughout the state except in the lower coastal areas.
White ash twigs are stout, somewhat flattened at the point of leaf origin.
The wood of the white ash is extremely valuable because of its toughness, elasticity and aesthetically pleasing grain.
www.ibiblio.org /pic/NCTrees/whiteash.htm   (298 words)

  
 TreeWeb: Species Guide, Oleaceae
White ash is a site-demanding species, found on mesic slopes, ravines, coves and upper bottomlands.
White ash is intermediate in tolerance and is a gap-phase species.
Green ash wood is distinctly inferior to that of white ash, and is not suitable for baseball bats.
www.uky.edu /Projects/TreeWeb/species/olea1.htm   (1020 words)

  
 Ohio Trees - White Ash
White Ash, one of the more common and rapidly growing trees of forests and fields in all of Ohio, is also a popular shade tree for urban areas.
Leaves of White Ash are opposite, pinnately compound, and have 5 to 9 dark green leaflets (usually seven or nine) with white-green undersides (shown as a detached leaflet, being the reason that White Ash is so-named).
Male flowers and female flowers occur on separate trees of White Ash in late winter or early spring, and thus the male and female trees are termed "dioecious".
www.dnr.state.oh.us /forestry/trees/ash_wh.htm   (706 words)

  
 ISUE Forestry - Ashes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ashes range from medium to large in size, attaining a height of from 80 to 90 feet, with the green and white ash growing the largest.
The blue ash and white ash are not considered to be flood plain trees, and are found growing on well-drained bottomlands and moist slopes.
The white ash is the most important of the four from a commercial standpoint.
www.extension.iastate.edu /Pages/tree/ashes.html   (191 words)

  
 Sam Ash Custom Guitars - Home
'63 tele NOS features an alder body (ash on white blonde and vintage blonde), ''C'' shape maple neck with round-lam rosewood fingerboard, white/fl/white pickguard and original spec pickups.
'63 tele RELIC features an alder body (ash on white blonde and vintage blonde), ''C'' shape maple neck with round-lam rosewood fingerboard, white/fl/white pickguard and original spec pickups.
Features include an alder body (ash on white blonde and vintage blonde), 10/56 shape maple neck, single-ply white pickguard and original spec pickups.
www.samashcustomguitars.com   (469 words)

  
 Characteristics of White Ash Lumber   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Preferring the well-drained loam soil found in river valleys, white ash can grow to 120' tall and a diameter of 6' with nearly half the trunk height clear of branches.
As does walnut, white ash produces leaves 8" to 12" long that are made up of five to nine lance-shaped leaflets, each about 5" long.
White ash differs in color from fl ash (often called brown ash), its cousin in the market.
stangelohardwoods.com /woodstreet/description/ash.htm   (208 words)

  
 Maine Tree Species Fact Sheet - White Ash
White Ash grows to a maximum size of 100', but long-lived trees are more commonly 70-80' tall with a diameter of 2'.
White Ash is dioecious and the male and female flowers develop on different trees from April to June.
White Ash that grows adjacent to old farmland or pastures, is prone to an "ash yellow" mycoplasm disease that blocks the phloem and creates a condition of drought stress in the tree.
www.umaine.edu /umext/mainetreeclub/FactSheets/WhiteAsh.htm   (846 words)

  
 White Ash Hardwood Flooring from County Floors - Exotic and Domestic
White ash, a North American tree, is not to be confused with mountain ash (eucalyptus regnans), which is native to Victoria and Tasmania.
The sapwood of mountain ash has a pale pink-brown color that is somewhat darker than the sample of white ash shown to the left.
White ash is thirty-two percent harder than teak, about two percent harder than red oak, two percent softer than white oak, eight percent softer than hard maple, roughly sevety-two percent as hard as hickory or pecan, and sixty percent as hard as santos mahogany's ranking of 2200.
www.countyfloors.com /species_ash.html   (281 words)

  
 Ash wood for crafts & cabinet makers
Ash is a great craft wood, but best known as the wood of choice for baseball bats.
White ash has quite a clear white to pale yellow sapwood, with heartwood pulling more to the light to medium tone browns.
Rarely have I found curly stock in the fl ash, but it is nice to work with, since it tends to splint less than the white variety.
www.thewoodbox.com /data/wood/ashinfo.htm   (496 words)

  
 Herbal Descriptions - White Ash Bark - Fraxinus excelsior   (Site not responding. Last check: )
White Ash Bark (Fraxinus excelsior) is also known as Ash Bark and encompasses over 70 species of tree in North America.
In western applications, White Ash Bark is used with other herbs to treat both acute and chronic forms of dysentery and diarrhea, and to reduce swelling and pain.
White Ash Bark decoctions have been shown to inhibit the activity of several types of bacteria.
www.viable-herbal.com /herbdesc5/1whiteash.htm   (491 words)

  
 English Timbers solid ash floors. White & Olive Ash - Fraxinus americana,
White Ash (Fraxinus americana) is grown in the northern states and along the Canadian border where it is strong and durable.
White ash from the northern states is stronger, tougher and has a better mix of colours than timber from the south.
Individual boards may be all brown or mostly white with a small proportion of olive colour and batches may vary with a dark or light bias.
www.englishtimbers.co.uk /pages/timbers/northernash.htm   (409 words)

  
 Exotic Wood ash
Ash heartwood is small and the sapwood is large, so most ash is sapwood.
Also, it's common for the curl in "curly" and "fiddleback" ash to NOT run the width of the sheet and, technically, this invalidates the "fiddleback" designation, which is used by many vendors simply to indicate a tight curl even if it doesn't run the full width.
Ash veneer has the interesting attribute that the grain lines are translucent, which shows up very nicely in these ash ceiling light covers from a hotel in Jersey City, NJ.
www.hobbithouseinc.com /personal/woodpics/ash.htm   (1248 words)

  
 White Ash - Character Wood - Beeken Parsons
Of the deciduous trees that grow in the Northeast, ash is the one that stands the driest.
It is for this reason and its willingness to be steam-bent that ash has been so important in traditional boat building.
This is a ring porous wood, sometimes referred to as open grained, with strong grain patterns that appear as parallel lines or swirls and waves.
www.beekenparsons.com /wood/ash.shtml   (171 words)

  
 TreeHelp.com: Trees: Ash Insects and Diseases: Ash Yellows
Ash yellows went undetected until the 1980's because its symptoms were not differentiated from those of decline caused by adverse environmental factors such as drought, shallow soils, flooding, or parasitism by opportunistic fungi.
Ash yellows is caused by wall-less microbes called mycoplasmalike organisms (MLOs) which invade the tree systemically (phloem sieve tubes) and are presumed to be transmitted by leafhoppers or related insects.
Ash yellows and its relationship to dieback and decline of ash.
www.treehelp.com /trees/ash/ash-yellows.asp   (1367 words)

  
 Fraxinus americana 'Autumn Purple': 'Autumn Purple' White Ash
`Autumn Purple' White Ash is a male tree introduced in 1956, growing 40 to 50 feet tall and perhaps 35 to 50 feet wide, and is a cultivar of the species which is native to moist locations.
Ash decline is one of its major problems and is probably caused by a complex of conditions, including a mycoplasma-like organism.
Ash which have not been properly pruned can break apart in wind storms, but White Ash has better branch structure than seedling Green Ash.
edis.ifas.ufl.edu /ST263   (1074 words)

  
 Ash tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An ash can be any of four different tree genera from four very distinct families (see end of page for disambiguation), but originally and most commonly refers to trees of the genus Fraxinus in the olive family Oleaceae.
Ash is also used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species - see list of Lepidoptera which feed on Ashes.
In North America, the name "Mountain ash" is applied to species of the genus Sorbus, more commonly known in the UK as Rowans and Whitebeams, and the name "Prickly ash" is applied to Zanthoxylum americanum.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ash_tree   (578 words)

  
 White ash - A Native Tree of the Macphail Woods, P.E.I.
White ash makes very fast growth, generally over 12" (30 cm) each year, so you can have very nice seedlings to plant out quite quickly.
along with red oak, yellow birch and white pine, it is a favorite tree for reforestation.
It can be used to diversify existing plantations, under planted after thinnings and planted in small openings in areas of old field white spruce.
www.macphailwoods.org /tree/whiteash.html   (486 words)

  
 White Ash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The White Ash (Fraxinus americana) is one of the largest of the ash genus Fraxinus, growing to 35 m (115 ft) tall.
White ash trees have an average natural lifespan of 100 years.
The lower sides of the leaves of White Ash are lighter-colored than their upper sides, and the outer surface of the twigs of White Ash may be flaky or peeling.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_Ash   (325 words)

  
 White Ash   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Fraxinus americana or common name, the White Ash, is a large tree found in the eastern half of the United States.
The bark of the White Ask is an ash-gray color which is depicted in it's common name.
The White Ash was found on Baker Woodlot on the Michigan State University.
www.msu.edu /~humphr20/WhiteAsh.htm   (227 words)

  
 White Ash Farm Subdivision - Fry Properties, Inc. - Custom Homes and Real Estate in Plainfield Illinois   (Site not responding. Last check: )
White Ash Farm is the latest Fry Properties, Inc. residential community being developed in Plainfield.
White Ash Farm is ideally located just 1.5 miles west of Route 59 with all of its shopping and entertainment options.
Aside from the new Normantown Trail Equestrian Center which is located on-site, White Ash Farm is graced with a series of walking and bike paths.
www.fryproperties.com /white_ash.php   (332 words)

  
 White Ash Bark   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The bark of the white ash tree is greenish-gray and often becomes dark gray with age.
The twigs of this tree are green or purple in color, have scattered white dots along the length of the twig, and leaf scars at the top of the twig.
The buds of the white ash are dark brown in color.
personal2.stthomas.edu /gmdoyle/white_ash_bark.htm   (86 words)

  
 Ash: White & Black Ash Lumber
The wood of white ash is very similar in appearance and characteristics, to red oak..
Black Ash is a medium dense wood, similar to a fl walnut, softer then its white ash cousin.
It is open pored, and in grain pattern much like white ash and red oak.
www.thewoodbox.com /hardwoods/ash.htm   (297 words)

  
 White Ash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The leaves are 20-30 cm long, pinnately compound with 7 (occasionally 5 or 9) leaflets, 6-13 cm (2-5 in) long.
This tree, like all ashes, is dioecious, with male and female flowers being born on separate trees.
Green Ash leaves are similar in color on upper and lower sides, and twigs are smoother.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_ash   (325 words)

  
 White Ash Furniture - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review
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 WHITE ASH
White Ash is an excellent landscape tree in sites where it is adapted.
Susceptible to ash yellows, a mycoplasma-like organism that may become a serious problem.
Ash flower gall on male flowers can be unattractive.
www.mnpower.com /treebook/fact32.html   (205 words)

  
 Lotz Hitty Dolls
The antique original Hitty doll, which inspired the 1929 Hitty book, is an antique folk doll also made of white ash.
My Lotzalove White Ash Hitty is carved from this very hard wood, then painted and VERY distressed to emulate a very old wooden doll looking as if it has endured the many years and adventures of the original Hitty doll.
It hurts my hands to carve this wood to the point that I can not make any more White Ash Hitty dolls for a while.
www.lotzstudiodolls.com /studiohitty.html   (681 words)

  
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