Mountain Ash

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:

    “He was a fool—a brilliant man and I loved his beard, and there was the mountain ax in his brain, and all the blood poured out, and he could not see the Mexican sun. Your people raised the ax, and the last blood of revolutionary mankind, his poor blood, ran into the carpet.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “Greasing the bodies of adulterers
    Like Hiroshima ash and eating in.
    The sin. The sin.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)