Botanical
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Botanical

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Ash  is a beautifully illustrated account of the botanical and cultural faces of the ash tree. The book maps the tree's evolution and geographical spread across the entire Northern Hemisphere over the last 44 million years, and describes the 43 species that grace the planet today. Edward Parker also explores the botany, cultural history, and medicinal uses of the tree, from its significance in ancient Indo-European cultures, to its remarkable properties in treating Alzheimer's disease. In addition he looks at topical issues, such as the devastating effects that the spread of the emerald ash borer beetle and the ash dieback fungal infection are having on Northern Hemisphere forests.

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Publisher
Reaktion Books
Year
2021
ISBN
9781789143577
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Science General
Index
Biological Sciences

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Introduction
1 Jesse L. Byock, trans., The Prose Edda (London, 2005), p. 18.
2 Darl J. Dumont, ‘The Ash Tree in Indo-European Culture’, Mankind Quarterly, XXXII/4 (Summer 1992), pp. 323–6, www.musaios.com, accessed 16 June 2019.
3 Ibid.
4 Alexander F. Chamberlain, The Child and Childhood in Folk-thought (Frankfurt, 2018), p. 132.
5 Melvin Hodge, ‘Uses of Plants by the Indians of Missouri River Region’, 33rd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, U.S., Government Printing Office (1919), p. 109.
6 Ibid.
7 Fred Hageneder, Yew: A History (Stroud, 2007), p. 104.
8 Richard A. Gabriel, Thutmose 111: A Military Biography of Egypt’s Greatest Warrior King (Lincoln, NE, 2009), p. 13.
9 ‘European Wood Pasture (Silvopasture)’, Case Studies (2012), www.coppiceagroforestry.com, accessed 18 July 2019.
10 Thomas A. Kinney, The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-drawn Vehicles in America (Baltimore, MD, 2004), p. 34.
11 K. N. Venugopala, V. Rashmi and B. Odhav, ‘Review of Natural Coumarin Lead Compounds for Their Pharmacological Activity’, BioMed Research International (March 2013), Article id. 963248.
12 ‘Sweet Approach’, www.clinicrowd.info, accessed 9 April 2019.
13 Peter A. Thomas, ‘Ashes to Ashes’, www.keele.ac.uk, 23 March 2016.
1 The Botany of Fraxinus
1 Carl Linnaeus, Species plantarum (Stockholm, 1753).
2 Eva Wallander, ‘Systemics of Fraxinus (Oleaceae) and the Evolution of Dioecy’, Plant Systematics and Evolution, CCLXXIII (2008), pp. 25–49.
3 A. Lingelsheim, ‘Oleaceae-Oleoideae-Fraxineae’, in A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich, IV/243 (Leipzig, 1920), pp. 1–65.
4 Robert E. Farmer, Seed Ecophysiology of Temperate and Boreal Zone Forest Trees (Boca Raton, FL, 1997), p. 47.
5 Wallander, ‘Systemics of Fraxinus’.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 W. Carter Johnson, ‘Estimating Dispersibility of Acer, Fraxinus and Tilia in Fragmented Landscapes from Patterns of Seedling Establishment’, Landscape Ecology, I/3 (1988), pp. 175–87.
11 Ibid.
12 Ivanka N. Kostova, ‘Chemical Components of Fraxinus Ornus Bark: Structure and Biological Activity’, Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, XXVI (2002), pp. 313–49.
13 ‘Plants for a Future, Fraxinus quadrangulata’, https://pfaf.org, accessed 19 April 2019.
14 Monumental Trees, www.monumentaltrees.com, accessed 19 April 2019.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 ‘Field Guide to the Ash Trees of North-eastern United States’, www.nybg.org, accessed 18 June 2019.
19 P. Wardle, ‘Biological Flora of the British Isles: Fraxinus excelsior L.’, Journal of Ecology, XLIX (1961), pp. 739–51.
20 Ibid.
21 J. P. Grime and R. Hunt, ‘Relative Growth-rate; Its Range and Adaptive Significance in a Local Flora’, Journal of Ecology, LXIII (1974), pp. 393–422.
22 N. M. Collins, ed., The Conservation of Insects and Their Habitats (San Diego, CA, 1989), p. 159.
23 Wallander, ‘Systemics of Fraxinus’.
24 R. H. Ree and S. A. Smith, ‘Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis’, Systematic Biology, LV...

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. one: The Botany of Fraxinus
  8. two: The Threatened Ash
  9. three: The Mythology of Ash
  10. four: Useful Ash
  11. five: The Healing Ash
  12. Epilogue
  13. Glossary
  14. Timeline
  15. References
  16. Further Reading
  17. Associations and Websites
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Photo Acknowledgements
  20. Index