This deciduous large shrub to small tree has a solitary or multiple greyish trunks with spreading branches that form a rounded crown. It has divided leaves with dark green pointed leaflets and the small creamy white flowers appear in a cluster during late spring.    

Hardiness zones 7 to 9 

Fraxinus sieboldiana is naturally found in a central China growing on hillside woodlands and in ravines commonly along water courses from an altitude of 500 m (1,500 ft) to 1, 200 m (3,600 ft). 

It prefers an open sunny to semi-shaded position and grows in most well-drained moderately fertile moist sandy to light clay soils with a pH 4.5-7.5 and is frost, wind and slightly drought tolerant. 

The Chinese flowering Ash is grown for its profuse flowers and its small compact habit. It is planted in gardens along borders for screening or as a wind break and as a lawn specimen. It is suitable for inland and low-mountain regions establishing in 3-5 years and is long-lived. This tree is also planted along water courses in woodland settings or used in Japanese gardens. ID 3462

Fraxinus (FRAK-sin-us) sieboldiana (SEE-bohl-dee-AH-nah)

'Fraxinus': Latin name for the ash.

Oleaceae (oh-lee-AY-see-ee)
American Hog Plum, African Walnut Family