Remarks.
Has no superior among ash woods. Blue Ash pitchfork-handles are very fine. Prefers limestone formations. Inner bark colors water blue, whence name. [p032]
Black Ash. Fraxinus nigra Marsh. Fraxinus sambucifolia Lam.
Nomenclature. (Sudworth.)
- Black Ash (local and common name).
- Water Ash (W. Va., Tenn., Ind.).
- Swamp Ash (Vt., R. I., N. Y.).
- Brown Ash (N. H., Tenn.).
- Hoop Ash (Vt., N. Y., Del., Ohio, Ill., Ind.).
Locality.
Northern and Northeastern States—Newfoundland to Virginia, westward intermittently to Manitoba and Arkansas.
Features of Tree.
Seventy to eighty feet in height, one to one and one-half feet in diameter. Leaves resemble those of Elder. A thin tree. Excrescences or knobs frequent on trunk. Dark, almost black, winter buds.
Color, Appearance, or Grain of Wood.