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Veneer Ash grey
BackDetailed Description
A fast-growing, deciduous, medium-sized tree, which reaches heights of up to about 30 m and a diameter of up to 100 cm. Especially in forest stands, the shaft is long and straight and knotless up to 20 m. In free standing the tree tends to twig growth. It reaches an age of up to 200 years. The bark is smooth and greenish-grey up to the age of 50, later brown, almost black, with wide longitudinal and transverse cracks.
Tradenames and other names
Bot. Name: Fraxinus excelsior
Tradename De: Schiefer Esche
Tradename En: Schiefer Ash
Properties
Raw density: 590 - 630 Kg/m3
Occurrence
The ash is native throughout Europe with the exception of central and southern Spain, in the Near East and partly in India.
Characteristic and wood color
Sapwood and heartwood are hardly distinguishable. The sapwood is wide and almost white. A pronounced heartwood formation occurs with increasing age of the tree, whereby the same then becomes grey, brownish to olive-coloured sharply. The late wood is darker than the early wood. The wood is irregularly drawn, grained or striped in various shades of colour and is therefore decorative in its effect. The texture is medium coarse to coarse and uneven throughout, while the structure is mostly straight grained.