A family of trees and bushes. In our area includes the ashes (Fraxinus genus), trees with opposite pinnately compound leaves and male and female flowers on separate trees (the males in roundish clusters and the females in upright branched clusters); the lilacs (Syringa genus), bushes with opposite simple leaves and fragrant purple flowers in elongated clusters; privits (Ligustrum genus), bushes with simple leaves, white flowers in dense clusters and purple berries; and fringe tree (Chionanthus genus), a small tree with simple leaves and flowers in drooping clusters.
This family contains trees.