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Sighting 4662341

Alphitonia excelsa

Red Ash at suppressed

Alphitonia excelsa at suppressed - suppressed
Alphitonia excelsa at suppressed - suppressed
Alphitonia excelsa at suppressed - suppressed
Alphitonia excelsa at suppressed - suppressed
Alphitonia excelsa at suppressed - suppressed
Alphitonia excelsa at suppressed - suppressed
Alphitonia excelsa at suppressed - suppressed
Alphitonia excelsa at suppressed - suppressed
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Identification history

Alphitonia excelsa 22 May 2025 JasonPStewartNMsnc2016

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User's notes

I understand this to be a Red Ash, (Alphitonia excelsa). This tree grows atop a creek bank, and is at least 40 years old. Photo 1 shows the canopy, upper trunk, & main branches. The leaves are thin but leathery, and are a dark green on top (photo 3), with a silver-white underside (photo 4). As with this one, I’ve seen many trees with their trunks, and branches being a mix of smooth & rough (predominantly) white, whereas patches of darker bark are mostly rough, having vertical fissures of generally narrow, but varying widths. The smoother bark is also mostly on younger growth. The trunk of this specimen has some narrower, almost bands, of light grey bark, roughly distributed along its length (photo 2). Others I’ve seen around seem to be more splotchy and random in the distribution of darker bark. The trunks and the branches are often host to a range of lichens and associated life forms.

3 comments

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:
   22 May 2025
Sorry i went to click verify of your identification, and then slipped the pointer to undo.

Please do feel free to re-do your own authorial identification.
MazzV wrote:
   3 Jun 2025
Thanks for that, too @JasonPStewartNMsnc, all good, MazzV
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:
   3 Jun 2025
Wonderful notes ! Thank you for sharing these .

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Sighting information

Additional information

  • Greater than 5 metres Plant height

Species information

  • Alphitonia excelsa Scientific name
  • Red Ash Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 80.68m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
  • In flower
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