Fraxinus platypoda

Fraxinus platypoda, the Chinese red ash, is a species of flowering plant in the family Oleaceae, native to central China, and Japan.^[1][2] In the latter stages of succession it often dominates the mountain riparian forest habitat in which it is found.^[3]

Fraxinus platypoda
Leaves
Habit
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Oleaceae
Genus:	Fraxinus
Species:	F. platypoda
Binomial name
Fraxinus platypoda Oliv.
Synonyms[1]
List Fraxinus commemoralis Koidz. Fraxinus inopinata Lingelsh. Fraxinus longicuspis f. hortensis Lingelsh. Fraxinus longicuspis var. sambucina (Blume) Lingelsh. Fraxinus mandshurica var. shiojii Kudô Fraxinus nipponica Koidz. Fraxinus platypoda f. nipponica (Koidz.) Yonek. Fraxinus sambucina (Blume) Koidz. Fraxinus shikokiana Sugim. Fraxinus sieboldiana var. sambucina Blume Fraxinus spaethiana Lingelsh. Fraxinus spaethiana f. nipponica (Koidz.) Kurata Fraxinus spaethiana var. nipponica (Koidz.) H.Hara Fraxinus verecunda Koidz.

It has high resistance to the emerald ash borer.^[4] A slow-growing deciduous tree, it is used as a street tree in Aarhus, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden.^[5]

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