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Ashes

Join the Woodland TrustPart of the Olive family, there are around 60 species of ash worldwide as grouped in the same family as the lilacs, jasmines and forsythias. Ashes have aerodynamic ‘keys’ like ‘maples’ but unlike maples they are symmetrical and not paired.

The most frequently found ash species in the British Isles is the:

Ash, common
Ash, common
Ash is the fourth commonest tree species in Britain and is sometimes the dominant tree in a wood. It is found across Europe from the Arctic Circle to Turkey.