59.) OLEACEAE - Ash family
- Jasminum officinale L. (Summer Jasmine) / General
- Fraxinus excelsior L. (Ash) / Woodland
- Syringa vulgaris L. (Lilac) / General
- ligustrum vulgare L. (Wild Privet) / Woodland
- ligustrum ovalifolium Hassk. (Garden Privet) / General
- Phillyrea latifolia L. (Green Olive Tree / Mock Privet) General
Species to add:
- Forsythia suspensa x F. viridissima = F. x intermedia Zabel (Forsythia - Stace, Clychau Aur - NBN) / -
- Forsythia suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl (Trailing Forsythia - Stace, Golden-bell - NBN) / - 4 records according to NBN
- Jasminum nudiflorum Lindl. (Winter Jasmine)
- Fraxinus excelsior 'Diversifolia' (One-leaved ash)
- Fraxinus excelsior 'Pendula' (Weeping Ash)
- Fraxinus angustifolia Vahl ssp. oxycarpa (Narrow-leaved Ash)
- Fraxinus ornus L. (Manna Ash)
One of the commonest tree species in the region but this may be set to change following the advent of Ash Die-back - a fungus native to Asia which was imported to Europe and then to Britain via the unnecessary trade of saplings from the continent simply because it's cheaper. If anythings going to drive Ash to extinction, at this rate it is the humans cutting them down en masse trying to prevent the spread of the disease rather than the disease itself. It is now unfortunately far too established. The hope is that some will survive and that overtime the offspring of those more resilient will replace those which weren't but this can't happen if the standard idiotic practice of mass felling goes on. The trade of Ash saplings was banned in 2012 but it continues with other species. So long as the ridiculous trade of importing native trees is allowed, preventable epidemics will continue to cause havoc.