Fraxinus pennsylvanica Leprechaun™
Common name: 
Lelprechaun Green Ash
Pronunciation: 
FRAKS-i-nus pen-sil-VAN-i-ka
Family: 
Oleaceae
Genus: 
Fraxinus
Synonyms: 
‘Johnson’
Type: 
Broadleaf
Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon: 
No
  • Deciduous tree/shrub, a true genetic dwarf, often sold grafted to a standard trunk at a height of 6 ft (1.8 m) from which it develops into a dense, compact, rounded tree about 20 ft (6 m) high with slightly less of a spread.  Leaves are half the size or less of standard cultivars.  Does not produce fruit (seeds).
  • Sun.  
  • Hardy to USDA Zone 3     A chance seedling found by M. Yanny in about 1983 at the Wayne Johnson Nursery, Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin; introduced in about 1994 (Jacobson, 1996).
  • Oregon State Univ. campus: several on the east side of 35th St. just south of Jackson Ave.
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