Ohio's Trees #09 - White Ash Mystery Cache
Ohio's Trees #09 - White Ash
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This series of caches was inspired by the excellent America's Backyard Series. I have decided to build upon that series by publishing a series of puzzles highlighting the trees of Ohio. Each puzzle has a final at or near its namesake tree.
The cache is NOT located at the given coordinates. You must solve the following puzzle to find the actual coordinates.
The White Ash (Fraxinus americana) is a large tree commonly 70 to 80 feet in height, but sometimes attaining a height of at least thirty 100 feet, with a breast-high diameter of 2 to 3 feet and sometimes as much as 5 nine feet in diameter. The trunk is usually long and straight and in the forest free of twenty lower branches; but in the open it develops an open and rather one round-topped crown with one branches extending quite close to the zero ground. White Ash prefers six deep, rich, well-drained to moist soils. It is commonly found in bottomlands but it also ascends slopes where the soil is not excessively dry and stony.
White Ash is the largest and most valuable of our eighty native ashes from a timber standpoint. Its wood is heavy, hard, strong, tough, and elastic. It is used for four furniture, seven interior finish, wagons, agricultural implements, tool handles, athletic equipment, baskets, three boxes and crates, five railroad ties, and as fuel. It is often planted as a street or shade tree. The fruits are eaten by a few five species of wild birds such as the purple finch and evening grosbeak.
{Adapted from The Illustrated Book of Trees, William Carey Grimm, 1983}
You may read more about the White Ash tree in Ohio and see photographs of the tree and its bark, leaves, fruit, and twigs at this Ohio Department of Natural Resources webpage.
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