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FRENE AMERIQUE [3 records]

Record 1 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
CONT

The white ash is commonly a medium-sized tree 50 to 60 feet in height and 2 to 3 feet in diameter, but when growing in a close stand sometimes reaches a height of 100 feet. The trunk is tall and straight, and even when grown in the open rises to a good height before separating into branches. The crown of moderately stout spreading or ascending branches is broadly rounded to pyramidal in outline.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
CONT

Fraxinus americana L.-Frêne d’Amérique.-Frêne blanc.(White Ash).-Arbre(long 10-30 m.) à rameaux glabres; folioles 5-9, pétiolulées, ovées-lancéolées, entières ou denticulées, quelquefois pubescentes inférieurement; samare(long 3-5 cm.) non marginée, ailée seulement près du sommet.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
Key term(s)
  • fresno blanco
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Record 2 2016-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
Key term(s)
  • fresno negro
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Record 3 2011-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
  • Animal Pests (Crops)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

The emerald ash borer belongs to a group of insects known as metallic wood-boring beetles (family Buprestidae).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
  • Animaux nuisibles aux cultures
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
CONT

L’agrile du frêne est un coléoptère de la famille des buprestidés à livrée verte métallique.

OBS

En Amérique du Nord, l’agrile ne s’attaque qu’au genre Fraxinus, les frênes, mais il est moins sélectif au Japon et s’attaque en plus à deux variétés de noisetier et une d’orme.

OBS

L'agrile du frêne est un insecte ravageur introduit en Amérique du Nord en 2002.

Spanish

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