Index / Search / Fraxinus profunda
§1 Plant
Fraxinus profunda (Bush) Bush
vernacular pumpkin ash — species · Oleaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Oleaceae Hoffmanns. & Link
- Genus
- Fraxinus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 122 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -24 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 36–70 in/yr
- pH range
- 4.5–7.3
- Root depth
- 28 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 120 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 65 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 3,200
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- Yes
- Fuelwood
- High
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 122 counties across 13 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- Franklin 22041
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
Mississippi view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Ashe 37009
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Carteret 37031
- Duplin 37061
- Franklin 37069
- Gates 37073
- Granville 37077
- Johnston 37101
- Montgomery 37123
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Northampton 37131
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Pamlico 37137
- Pasquotank 37139
- Pender 37141
- Robeson 37155
- Rowan 37159
- Stanly 37167
- Swain 37173
- Wake 37183
- Warren 37185
- Wilson 37195
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Arlington 51013
- Charles City 51036
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Cumberland 51049
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Greensville 51081
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- Middlesex 51119
- Northampton 51131
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Southampton 51175
- Surry 51181
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FRPR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3172363 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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