Ailanthus

"I am sure I told you that they would not live here in the open air, but they do in China; and the ailanthus is a Chinese tree. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)

A giant ailanthus tree, at least fifty feet tall, was growing up right between the derelict seats. ❋ Mark Jacobson (2010)

I was hoping to find a crack in the pavement where my ailanthus of a poem could take root. ❋ Nicholson Baker (2009)

People walking their dogs go by or wait while their inquisitive pets sniff around the ailanthus in front of the house. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Edgar looked out a window and saw someone moving among the poplars and ailanthus trees in the most overgrown part of the rubbled lots. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

They saw the ailanthus jungle and the smash heap of mortified cars and they looked at the six-story slab of painted angels with streamers rippled above their cherub heads. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

Close-set buildings, laundry lines, slant light, patches of weeds, a few would-be gardens and bare ailanthus trees and the fire escapes that fixed fretwork patterns of light and shade on the walls and paved surfaces. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

I crossed a vacant lot, a parking lot filled with cinders and broken glass and longed for an ailanthus tree to break the prison-gray walls and ground all around. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When I read how many thousands of dollars a city like New York has to spend to keep underground water pipes free of ailanthus, ginko, and sycamore roots, I cannot help but give a little cheer. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But she has a huge pine, a wild, rambling rose bush that hasn't been pruned in decades, weed trees like ailanthus, walnut, and a scrubby little maple, and she never mows. ❋ Angry Professor (2006)

A faded sign in the front yard advertised "Apple Orchard Daycare," but the only tree Tess could see was an ailanthus that no one had tried to chop down until it was too late. ❋ Lippman, Laura (1998)