This deciduous tree has an upright smooth greyish trunk with spreading branches that form a compact rounded crown. It has divided leaves with dull dark green toothed leaflets and the creamy white saucer-shaped fragrant flowers appear in a cluster in spring.

Hardiness zones 6 to 10 

Fraxinus ornus is naturally found from Spain to northern Italy, east to Turkey and extending west to Syria and Lebanon growing in a broad leaf mixed forests on south facing slopes from sea level to an altitude of 1500 m (4,921 ft). 

It prefers an open sunny to partially shaded position and grows in moderately fertile well-drained sandy-stony to like clay soils commonly with a chalk substrate with a pH 4.5-7.5 and is frost and moderately drought tolerant.

The Manna Ash is grown for its masses of fragrant flowers and compact rounded habit. It is planted in parks and gardens as a lawn specimen or used in woodland settings. It is suitable for coastal and low-mountain regions establishing in 4-6 years and is long-lived. It is also cultivated as a source of Manna an oxidised dried exudate from the bark that is used in herbal remedies. ID 3463

Note:
In its native habitat the tree is commonly used for fodder for goats and sheep and the timber is worked to make tool handles or used for fuel. 

Fraxinus (FRAK-sin-us) ornus (AW-nus)

'Fraxinus': Latin name for the ash.

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