Griffith's Ash

A semi-evergreen to evergreen tree in the olive family, distributed across the tropics and subtropics of East and South Asia, including Okinawa, Taiwan, the Philippines, and India. Since the 1990s it has become an explosively popular symbol tree and garden tree in mainland Japan — valued for its cool, fine odd-pinnate foliage, resistance to pests, fast growth, and manageable size for small gardens. In summer, many small white flowers open in panicles. Dioecious.

Identification Points

• ✓Odd-pinnately compound leaves with small glossy leaflets
• ✓Semi-evergreen to evergreen, increasingly evergreen further south
• ✓Many small white flowers in panicles in summer

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