54. Fraxinus xanthoxyloides (G. Don) A. De Candolle OLEACEAE
Crab ash, Afghan ash
Photograph of Fraxinus xanthoxyloides in the wild, Sutlej Valley, Himachal Pradesh
This specimen was grown from seed collected in 1984 by RBGE horticulturist and alpine-specialist Ron McBeath in the Miyar Valley, Lahul, in Himachal Pradesh. It occurs from Afghanistan eastwards to Uttarakhand in India. In dry habitats, for example in the Sutlej Valley, it forms a shrub. The specific epithet ‘xanthoxyloides’ refers to the colour of its yellow wood, which, according to the pioneering Indian forest conservator Hugh Cleghorn, made ‘good walking sticks’ and ‘hefts and handles’ for tools.
RBGE Living Collections Accession Factsheet
Accession Number:19841432
Scientific Name:Fraxinus xanthoxyloides DC.
Family:Oleaceae
Genus:Fraxinus
Epithet:xanthoxyloides
Collector:McBeath, Ronald J.D.
Origin:India, Bangladesh & Pakistan:Himachal Pradesh:Lahul:Udaipur
Elevation:2,700m
Plant:19841432B
Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced
Plant:19841432C
Location:/Living Collections/Inverleith/A01/R040
Plant:19841432A
Location:/Living Collections/Unplaced
Akshit Kukreti
This is Akshit Kukreti Ph.D scholar at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun want to say that i am interested to work on Fraxinus xanthoxyloides but i am not able to find distribution of the shru. so please may you help me where is the distribution of the shrub in India.