Ash
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Ash (scientific Fraxinus excelsior) is a tree common to most of Europe.
Hard wearing, it makes good tool handles and longbows. It begins life as a very pale wood, and darkens to a warm yellow colour.
The wood sold in Australia as Mountain Ash is not an an acyual Ash, rather it is a species of Eucalyptus.
