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Ash with male flowers before flowering

 

 

Being wind pollinated, the ash flowers before leaves appear. Ashes can be dioecious: there are male and female specimens. There are also trees with both male and female flowers in the inflorescences.  

Dark bulges develop on the twigs, the inflorescences appear from the buds.

 

Ash with female flowers before flowering; the tip bud of the twig is in a dormant state

 

Start of pollination, part of the stamens have opened

 

Bisexual ash inflorescence, more male than female flowers

 

The male flowers are in the lower part of the inflorescence, female flowers in the tip of it

 

Ash with male flowers flowering