Loose Leaves - Black Ash Tree

昨日紹介したLeanne Shapton の本「NATIVE TREES OF CANADA」の特集を今日からスタートします。一回目の紹介は落葉高木のトネリコ類のブラックアッシュです：

学名：　Ｆｒａｘｉｎｕｓ Ｎｉｇｒａ 　和名：ニグラ トネリコ　英名：　Black Ash

After passing the rapids, the river widened into another small lake, perfectly round in form, and having in its center a tiny green island, in the midst of which stood, like a shattered monument of bygone storms, one blasted, black ash tree.   

— Susanna Moodie, “Roughing It in the Bush”