Fraxinus ornus, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 53

1. F. ornus L. , Sp. Pl. 1057 (1753)

( Ornus europaea Pers. ).

Tree up to 20 m, with smooth, grey bark; twigs usually glabrous, yellowish-grey to grey; buds greyish or brownish, more or less pruinose. Leaflets 5-9, 30-80 x 18-45 mm, ovate to lanceolate, cuspidate, distinctly petiolulate, irregularly serrulate. Leaflets of juvenile trees 15-30 x 10-20 mm, subsessile and crenateserrate. Calyx small, deeply lobed, persistent. Corolla white; petals 4, 5-6 mm, linear. Samara 20-25 x 4-6 mm, obovate- linear to oblong, acute to emarginate. M ixed woods, thickets and rocky places. Mediterranean region and S.C. Europe, northwards to S. Czechoslovakia and N.E. Romania. Al Au Bu Co Cz Gr He Hs Hu It Ju Rm Sa Si Tu [Ga].