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Fraxinus pennsylvanica Leprechaun™   (syn. ‘Johnson’)            Oleaceae

Leprechaun Green Ash      FRAKS-i-nus pen-sil-VAN-i-ka

• Deciduous tree/shrub, a true genetic dwarf, often sold grafted to a standard trunk at a height of 6 ft (1.8 m) from which it develops into a dense, compact, rounded tree about 20 ft (6 m) high with slightly less of a spread.  Leaves are half the size or less of standard cultivars.  Does not produce fruit (seeds).
• Sun.  
• Hardy to USDA Zone 3     A chance seedling found by M. Yanny in about 1983 at the Wayne Johnson Nursery, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin; introduced in about 1994 (Jacobson, 1996).
• Oregon State Univ. campus: several on the east side of 35th St. just south of Jackson Ave.