Black Ash

Name

Black Ash

Scientific name

Fraxinus nigra

Type

herbarium sheet

Creator

Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation

Spatial Coverage

Canada
Walpole Island, Ontario

Date (yyyy-mm-dd)

1933-07-08

Description

Leaves of black ash from tree about 30 feet tall, cut on farm of William George, an old Pottawatomie farmer living on the back part of the island. The tree was bought through Levi Sturgeon for 75 cents (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes, Field no. 2).

Identifier

UMMAA 13967 (twigs)

Collector

Volney Jones

UM holding institution

Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Relation

UMMAA 13940 is the trunk of this tree