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Fraxinus pennsylvanica Urbanite®               Oleaceae

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

• Broadleaf deciduous tree, dense, broadly pyramidal, to about 50 × 40 ft (15 × 12 m). thick bark.  Leaves large, thick, usually 9 leaflets, occasionally 11 , margin entire, glossy green, light green to silvery below, bronzy in fall.  Seedless.
• Sun.  
• Hardy to USDA Zone 5     Selected by Willet Wandell from seeds collected in 1965 from a tree in Danville, Illinois (PP 6,215; 1988).
• Oregon State Univ. campus: several in the parking lot southwest of Reser Stadium.