NOUN
- low-growing ash of Texas
- any of various trees of the genus Sorbus
- tree having wood similar to the alpine ash; tallest tree in Australia and tallest hardwood in the world
How To Use mountain ash In A Sentence
- The large buds of mountain ash and poplars have a sticky, resinous covering that partially protects them from hungry animals.
- Many birds love berries of barberry, beautyberry, cotoneaster, currant, elderberry, gooseberry, holly, mahonia, mountain ash, nandina, pyracantha, and strawberry tree (not all plants grow in every zone).
- It's hard to think of autumn and winter berries without thinking of the mountain ash, or rowan tree.
- Trees, including copper beech and mountain ash, are planted around the lawn area at the base of the garden to give a sense of scale.
- Mountain ashes, crabapple trees, and a pear tree provide fruit in season, while trumpet vines and such flowering perennials as penstemon and sage supply nectar that sustains hummingbirds.
- Even in winter there's an austere beauty to the bare branches of aspen, apricot, and apple trees, and the bright-red berries of mountain ash.
- For the first time in 2,000 years, Scots pine, alder, birch, hazel, holly, and mountain ash are set to reclaim a large swath of the Scottish Highlands.
- In the way of fruit-bearing shade trees he recommends sugar maple, flowering dogwood, white and cockspur thorn, native red mulberry, tupelo, black cherry, choke cherry, and mountain ash. The Bird Study Book
- The Rowan or Mountain Ash was traditionally regarded as a tree of magical power, believed to protect against evil and give long life to those who ate its fruit. Scottish Food.
- The rowan tree, or mountain ash as it is better known, is now in full bloom.
