The creamy plumes of the manna ash can be admired at the western end of the Fairway.
One of 65 species from Europe, Asia and North America, Fraxinus ornus has a rounded, dense canopy which can grow to 20m in height, and which produces fragrant panicles of creamy, feathery flowers, and subsequently delicate, narrow winged fruits. A native of southern Europe and southwestern Asia, it is grown commercially in Sicily for the production of manna, which is a sweet, sticky gum extracted from the bark, hence the common name manna ash.