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:

    “The mountain throws a shadow,
    Thin is the moon’s horn;
    What did we remember
    Under the ragged thorn?
    Dread has followed longing,
    And our hearts are torn.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “For it’s home, dearie, home—it’s home I want to be.
    Our topsails are hoisted, and we’ll away to sea.
    O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
    They’re all growing green in the old countrie.”
    —William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)