MOUNTAIN ASH, in Botany

name for any species of the genus Sorbus of the family Rosaceae (rose family), hardy ornamental trees and shrubs native to the Northern Hemisphere, not related to the true ashes. They are deciduous and bear flat-topped clusters of white flowers followed by orange or brilliant red berrylike fruits, for which they are widely cultivated as ornamentals. The astringent pome fruits are often used in domestic remedies. Of native kinds, the most common is the American mountain ash (S. americana), ranging from Newfoundland to North Carolina. Introduced species are often cultivated, especially the common European mountain ash or rowan tree (S. aucuparia). This tree is one of the most revered plants in the folklore of the Old World. It warded off evil influences and was "Thor's helper"; bits of the wood were thought to avert almost any disaster. Mountain ash is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Rosaceae.

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books on: Mountain Ash in Botany  - 25 results

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Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple Introduction to Structural Botany: with a Popular Flora, or an Arrangement and Description of Common Plants, Both Wild and Cultivated
Book by Asa Gray; Ivison, Blakeman, 1858
Subjects: Botany
...smoothish; flowers rose-color, sweet-scented; fruit greenish, fragrant Fig. 361 . Common. W. P. coronaria . Mountain-Ash or Rowan Tree. Pyrus, Sorbus. Both the wild and the foreign species are planted for the beauty of their bright scarlet...
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Economic Botany: A Textbook of Useful Plants and Plant Products
Book by Albert F. Hill; McGraw-Hill, 1952
Subjects: Botany, Economic
...Engelmannii , found in the Rocky Mountain and Cascade Range region from Canada...is also of importance. HARDWOODS Ash Ash wood is strong, elastic, tough...high polish. The characteristics of ash adapt it to a wide range of uses other...
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Fifty Years of Botany: Golden Jubilee Volume of the Botanical Society of America
Book by William Campbell Steere; McGraw-Hill, 1958
Subjects: Botany
...leaf and oystershell figures, the peanut figure of Japanese ash, the rope and mottle and broken-stripe figures. If I were...peak, or an impersonal statement of the topography of this mountain and an evaluation of the methods and equipment used in conquering...
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Vistas in Botany
Book by W. B Turrill; Pergamon, 1959
Subjects: Botany
ash, and sweet chestnut and the tree limit was naturally formed of fir woods...Aralo-Caspia, Balkhash, DzungaroTabagatai, Kyzyl Kizil Kum, Kara Kum, Mountain Turkmenia, Amu Darya foothills, Syr Darya foothills, Pamir-Altai, Tien...
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Hayfever Plants, Their Appearance, Distribution, Time of Flowering, and Their Role in Hayfever: With Special Reference to North America
Book by Roger P. Wodehouse; Chronica Botanica Co., 1945
Subjects: Botany--United States, Hay-Fever Plants
...common and of smaller size. Red ash F. pennsylvanica Marsh. is...the Chinese elm GEORGE 1936 . Mountain ash F. texana Sarg. is a...places in Texas. The term, mountain ash is more commonly used to...properly called the European mountain ash or rowan tree, both insect...
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journal articles on: Mountain Ash in Botany  - 15 results

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Ashes and the Phoenix
Journal article by Ronald B. Lansing; Environmental Law, Vol. 40, 2010
Subjects: Accreditation (Education)--History, Environmental law--Study and teaching, Law schools--Standards
Ashes and the Phoenix. by Ronald B. Lansing...the Washington Cascade and Oregon Wallowa mountain ranges. In the spirit of former President...calling. A Phoenix arisen from these earliest ashes. (1) 260 Or. 138, 143 (1971). RONALD...
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Telling Trees: Eucalyptus, "Anon," and the Growth of Co-evolutionary Histories
Journal article by Shelley Saguaro; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 42, 2009
Subjects: Anon (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Bail, Murray--Works, Eucalyptus (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, History--Growth, Novelists--Works, Oral tradition--Criticism and interpretation, Trees (Plants)--Criticism and interpretation, Trees--Criticism and interpretation, Woolf, Virginia--Works
...the little Yellowtop Ash, so called, to poke...narrow ledges of the Blue Mountains. What about diversifolia...This ignorance of the botany of the place I am from...other hand, Australias mountain ash--the worlds tallest...the founders of modern botany recognized Eucalyptus...
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More Than Meets the Eye: Photographic Records of Humboldtian Imaginings
Journal article by Catherine De Lorenzo, Deborah Van Der Plaat; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 37, 2004
Subjects: Photography--Criticism and interpretation
...These document the botany and topography of the...the soaring Mountain Ash characteristic of the...beauty of the towering Mountain Ash under which the tree...summits of inland chains of mountains" (2: 452). The convergence...Fern trees and Mountain Ash co-exist with European...
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Postfire Succession in an Adirondack Forest
Journal article by Susy Svatek Ziegler; The Geographical Review, Vol. 97, 2007
Subjects: Adirondack Forest Preserve, New York--Environmental aspects, Ecological succession--Research, Forest fires--Environmental aspects, Forest fires--United States, United States. Department of Agriculture--Powers and duties
...burned slash-covered mountain slopes in east-central...fires swept over the mountains for three weeks from...approached Noonmark Mountain from several different...leaving pockets of ash over light gray anorthosite...Perala 1990). The ash deposits may have provided...meters in the Adirondack Mountains (Ketchledge 1996...established near Noonmark Mountain at elevations up to...
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"I Commend You to Allegany Underbrush": The Subversive Place-Made Self in Elizabeth C. Wright's Treatise on Nature, Lichen Tufts
Journal article by Daniel Patterson; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 17, 2000
Subjects: American literature--19th century, Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Nature stories--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Social aspects, Wright, Elizabeth C.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...parallel to these hindrances in botany that Wright targets is the...we tell the history of the ash tree through human legends...long and steady stretch up the mountain side and the coarse fare...Birds A Ladys life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) and Constance F...
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magazine articles on: Mountain Ash in Botany  - 6 results

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Prairie
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 105, November 1996
Subjects: Botany, Flowers & plants, Loess Hills, Prairies
...lotusflowered milk vetch, silver scuff pea, Rocky Mountain bee plant, a great-flowered beardtongue...Woodlands Dominating the drier slopes are white ash, chinquapin oak, slippery elm, northern...midcanopy of pawpaw, redbud, and green ash. For visitor information, write: Missouri...
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The Godman of India
Magazine article by Babu Gogineni; Skeptic, Vol. 7, 1999
...aid of vibhuti (sacred wood ash), which seems to appear from...Omega watches. The vibhuti (ash) He creates have been used...How can the ant delve into the mountain? It is beyond you to know how...solid, physics. Then trees, botany. Then man, the pinnacle of...
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The AJ Environmental Education Directory 2007: Green Campus Life and Learning
Magazine article; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 33, November 2007
Subjects: Environmental education--Study and teaching, Universities and colleges--Canada, Universities and colleges--Curricula
...campus. Perched on top of a mountain, the university overlooks...000 and is near freshwater, mountain, saltwater and island habitats...ecosystem. Large green spaces, mountains and parks are close by. The...Millennium Park has unique pumpkin ash and cucumber trees. EnviroWestern...
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The Anatomy Lesson
Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 104, December 1995
Subjects: Classification, History, Linnaeus, Carolus (1707-78), Mendes de Costa, Emmanuel (1717-91), Scientists
...buried into a conventional metaphor: "the ash-heap of history." But Linnaeuss original...natural and simple methods as these, that botany has so eminently raised her head above...shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain"--made, no doubt, of the genus Granita...
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Ecuador
Magazine article; Foreign Policy, January 2002
Subjects: Economic development--Statistics, Ecuador--Economic aspects, Electronic commerce--Statistics, Fish industry--Statistics, High technology industry--Statistics, Horticultural industry--Statistics, Petroleum industry--Statistics, Pharmaceutical industry--Statistics
...provide the region with fertile volcanic ash. * Shrimp farming is one of Ecuadors...country offers whitewater rafting, volcano mountain biking, and trekking. Eco-tourism...Balick and Robert Mendelsohn, (Economic Botany 49, 1995). (3.) "An Emerging Software...
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Mountain Ash , in Botany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MOUNTAIN ASH , in botany name for any species of the genus Sorbus...Hemisphere, not related to the true ashes. They are deciduous and bear flat...kinds, the most common is the American mountain ash ( S. americana ), ranging from Newfoundland...
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Ash , in Botany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ASH , in botany in botany, any plant of the genus Fraxinus...north temperate regions. The ashes are characterized by small clusters...North America and China. The mountain ash and prickly ash are not true ashes. Ashes are classified in the...


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