Mountain Ash is a name used for several trees, none of immediate relation. It may refer to:
- Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest of all flowering plants and other floral species
- Fraxinus texensis, an ash tree species in Texas
- Trees in the genus Sorbus in North America (mainly U.S.), which are often styled as mountain-ashes to convey their unrelatedness to true ashes.
- In Ireland and Britain it is used exclusively for Sorbus aucuparia, which is also commonly known as Rowan.
Places
- Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, a town in South Wales, United Kingdom
Famous quotes containing the words mountain and/or ash:
“... my mother ... piled up her hair and went out to teach in a one-room school, mountain children little and big alike. The first day, some fathers came along to see if she could whip their children, some who were older than she. She told the children that she did intend to whip them if they became unruly and refused to learn, and invited the fathers to stay if they liked and she’d be able to whip them too. Having been thus tried out, she was a great success with them after that.”
—Eudora Welty (b. 1909)
“Thoth, Hermes, the stylus,
the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
though our books are a floor
of smouldering ash under our feet.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)