Botany Photo of the Day Fraxinus sieboldiana

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One of the showier species of ash in terms of floral display, Fraxinus sieboldiana is native to southeastern China, Korea, and Japan. The plant in today’s photograph was grown from seed collected in Japan two decades ago. Siebold’s ash is a forest inhabitant, growing on moist wooded slopes and along forest streams. Photographs of it […]

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