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Mountain Ash
 
  Mountain Ash is a name used for several unrelated trees. It may refer to:

  • Eucalyptus regnans
    Eucalyptus regnans

    Eucalyptus regnans, known variously by the common names Mountain Ash, Victorian Ash, Swamp Gum, Tasmanian Oak or Stringy Gum, is a species of Eucalyptus native to southeastern Australia, in Tasmania and Victoria ....
    , the tallest of all flowering plants
  • Fraxinus texensis, an ash tree species in Texas
  • Trees in the genus Sorbus
    Sorbus

    Sorbus is a genus of about 100?200 species of trees and shrubs in the subfamily Maloideae of the Rose family Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus are commonly known as whitebeam, rowan, service tree, and Sorbus aucuparia....
     in North America (mainly U.S.A.) . In Ireland and Britain it is used exclusively for Sorbus aucuparia
    Sorbus aucuparia

    Sorbus aucuparia , is a species of the genus Sorbus , native to most of Europe except for the far south, and northern Asia. In the south of its range in the Mediterranean region it is confined to high altitudes in mountains....
     which is also commonly known as Rowan
    Rowan

    The rowans or mountain-ashes are plants in the family Rosaceae, in the genus Sorbus, subgenus Sorbus. They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the mountains of western China and the Himalaya, where numerous apomixis microspecies occur....
    . The tree species Sorbus americana
    Sorbus americana

    The tree species Sorbus americana is commonly known as the American Mountain-ash. It is a relatively small deciduous perennial tree, native to northern North America and the Appalachian Mountains....
     is commonly known as the American Mountain-ash.
  • Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taff, a town in South Wales, United Kingdom