White Ash
This deciduous tree has firm gray bark with diamond-shaped furrows and interlacing ridges.
The foliage is dark green in the summer and turns to yellow or maroon in the fall.
It develops an open and rather round topped crown in its old age.
The wood is hard, strong, elastic, and very useful.
This is the largest of the ash trees in North America.
Several kinds of birds eat the fruit.
The White Ash tree, Fraxinus Americana, is a handsome native tree.
It is tall, stately, and long lived.
Mature trunks can reach almost 6 feet in diameter.
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Corn earworms are ugly caterpillars that start chewing on corn stalks as soon as they pop out of the ground. You can minimize the damage these bugs wreak by sprinkling ground lime on corn ears once the silk appears.
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