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Characteristics
 Family- Oleaceae--The Olive Family
- Origin
- Native NC
- Plant
Description
- Deciduous tree to 80 feet; leaves opposite, once pinnately
compound, mostly 7 or 9 leaflets, without teeth, lowers surface yellow-green
and covered with soft hairs, flowers April to May before the leaves, sexes
separate, on separate trees, small and nondescript; fruits maturing in
early fall, a one-seeded, winged samara (2-3 inches long, with broad elliptical
wing extending nearly to the base of the thick seed body) held in drooping
clusters.
- Ornamental
Characteristics
- Large tree with very large leaves and large, dangling
clusters of fruits.
- Landscape
Use
- Large tree for wet areas.
- Horticultural
Cultivars
- None.
- Availability/Propagation
- Not available in nurseries; transplant seedlings from
the wild (with permission), propagate from seed planted in fall.
- Culture
- Plant in full sun to partial shade in wet to saturated
soils.
- Coastal
Ecology
- Pumpkin ash is an Obligate Wetland species found in fresh
water swamps, often along blackwater rivers in the Coastal Plain, and observed
in wet depressions in the Roosevelt Natural Area in Carteret County.
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