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:

    “A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps
    adjusting the ash heaps;
    opening and shutting itself like

    an
    injured fan.”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)