European ash has fairly good strength properties for its weight and is also shock resistant.
Ash hardwood database.
The hardwood genomics project hosts genomes transcriptomes and annotations for forest trees and other angiosperm woody plant species.
Ash machines well is good in nailing screwing and gluing and can be stained to a very good finish.
When viewed from the face grain the wood bears a strong resemblance to black ash closely matching its color and grain pattern.
Green ash and black ash trees are preferentially attacked by the insects followed by white ash and blue ash.
Green ash transcriptome sequencing ssrs honeylocust transcriptome sequencing ssrs framework map reference populations.
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Green ash has excellent shock resistance and along with hickory carya spp it is one of the most commonly used hardwoods for tool handles in north america particularly in shovels and hammers where toughness and impact resistance is important.
It dries fairly easily with minimal degrade and there is little movement in performance.
When stained ash can look very similar to oak quercus spp although oaks have much wider rays which are visible on all wood surfaces even on flatsawn surfaces where they appear as short thin brown lines between the growth rings.
Perhaps the most common ash look alike is sassafras sassafras albidum.
White ash has excellent shock resistance and along with hickory carya spp it is one of the most commonly used hardwoods for tool handles in north america particularly in shovels and hammers where toughness and impact resistance.
The closer ring spacing can also be used to distinguish black ash from white ash.
With its typical straight grain and beige to light brown hue ash wood is a very attractive option for fine furniture.
The term olive ash does not refer to any specific species of ash fraxinus genus but instead is in reference to the darker streaked heartwood found in some ash trees which tends to resemble the wood of olive trees in the olea genus and it should come as little surprise that olive ash can be a dead ringer for actual olive with the exception of the porous grain structure which gives its.
It s one of the most durable varieties and has an extensive history in american furniture making.
Even its light weight 31 lbs ft 3 average closely matches the density of black ash 34 lbs ft 3 average.
For sequence similarity with nucleotide or protein sequences in our database.
