Mountain Ash is a name used for several trees, none of immediate relation. It may refer to:
- Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest of all flowering plants and other floral species
- Fraxinus texensis, an ash tree species in Texas
- Trees in the genus Sorbus in North America (mainly U.S.), which are often styled as mountain-ashes to convey their unrelatedness to true ashes.
- In Ireland and Britain it is used exclusively for Sorbus aucuparia, which is also commonly known as Rowan.
Places
- Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, a town in South Wales, United Kingdom
Famous quotes containing the words mountain and/or ash:
“If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the barroom and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Greasing the bodies of adulterers
Like Hiroshima ash and eating in.
The sin. The sin.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)