''Fraxinus angustifolia'' 'Pendula Vera', or true weeping narrow-leafed ash, is a
weeping tree and a
cultivar
A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture ...
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Fraxinus angustifolia
''Fraxinus angustifolia'', the narrow-leaved ash, is a species of ''Fraxinus'' native to central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia.Flora Europaea''Fraxinus angustifolia''/ref>Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and E ...
'' subsp. ''angustifolia'', the Narrow-leafed Ash. It was first mentioned by Beissner, Schelle & Zabel in 1903. No trees are known to survive of this
cultivar
A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture ...
.
Description
A strongly
weeping tree with a leader and with perpendicular branches forming a dome shape. More pendulous then the well known 'Pendula'
Accessions
This cultivar used to be cultivated in Germany. No specimens are known to survive.
Synonymy
*''Fraxinus lentiscifolia'' f. pendula-vera Beissner, Schelle & Zabel (1901), nom. nud.
s f. pendula vera[Govaerts, R., Michielsen, K. & Jablonski, E. (2011). Untraced Weeping Broadleaf cultivars: an overview. ]
Belgische Dendrologie Belge
'' 2009: 19-30.
References
External links
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angustifolia 'Pendula Vera'
Weeping trees
Extinct cultivars
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