Claret Ash
Fraxinus angustifolia 'raywood'
The most colourful Autumn tree in my garden (in fact I have two; a small one and a larger one).
This is a cultivar of the Caucasian Ash that was originally discovered near a group of assorted ash trees in Sewell's nursery in the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia about 1910 (I didn't know that until I just looked it up).
It goes a fabulous deep claret colour, but with the morning light shining through the leaves, you get this (bigger).
I asked my daughter why she was wearing shorts to school this morning - she knew it was going to be 23ºC, whereas I had a jumper on...
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