Pumpkin Ash
Fraxinus profunda (N.C. State Extension)
Pumpkin Ash is a large tree needing a large space. This flowering, deciduous tree has an open crown and can reach heights of 125 feet, but typically it will mature at 60 to 80 feet. Its natural habitat includes consistently moist areas such as swamps, floodplains, river valleys, and other low areas. it is quite often found growing along with bald cypress.
Pumpkin Ash (Virginia Tech Dendrology)
Learn to identify this tree by its leaf, flower, fruit, twig, bark and form.
Pumpkin Ash (USDA Forest Service)
Pumpkin ash (Fraxinus profunda), also called red ash, is a large tree of swamps and bottom lands where it often develops a swollen or pumpkin-shaped butt. For management and utilization, it is treated the same as other ashes. The seeds are eaten by birds, and deer browse on the branches.
Pumpkin Ash (Carolina Nature)
Pumpkin Ash is an uncommon large tree of wet habitats. It is found in swamps and on river and stream banks in the Coastal Plain and rarely also in the lower Piedmont and Mountains of North Carolina.