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Common Name: Japanese Evergreen Oak
Quercus acuta is an evergreen tree in its habitat, but usually a very large, low-branched, dense shrub in cultivation. The new growth emerges purplish-brown and the acorns are clustered and topped with a concentric ringed cap. This Japanese evergreen...
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Common Name: Sawtooth Oak 'Gobbler'
Quercus acutissima 'Gobbler' is a deciduous dense, broad, oval-rounded to broad-rounded tree with low-slung, wide-spreading branches. The cultivar Gobbler is the result of open-pollinated progeny that produce early and abundant acorns. One of the fa...
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Common Name: White Oak
White Oak is a large imposing deciduous tree reaching 50 to 80 feet with a broad rounded crown. It is a long-lived, slow-growing oak. Many venerable specimens exist. The leaves with rounded lobes turn russet-red in fall and are widely recognized as...
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Common Name: Oriental White Oak
The Asian White Oak is a small to medium size bushy deciduous tree with large, dark green, toothed leaves. It is typically low branched and can make a good climbing tree. Plant in open site with fertile soil that is well-drained. This fine oak is ...
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Common Name: Bluff Oak
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Common Name: Swamp White Oak
Large deciduous tree with irregularly lobed leaves and acorns borne on long stalks. Native to bottomlands but drought resistant. Needs acid soil. (See DIR, S&W)...
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Common Name: Scarlet Oak
Scarlet Oak is a large deciduous tree with deeply lobed glossy foliaged often with excellent scarlet fall color.. It is a highly ornamental shade tree tolerant of dry soil. Similar habit to Pin Oak in youth. ... |
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Common Name: Portuguese Oak
Quercus faginea, the Portuguese Oak ia a semi-evergreen small tree or large shrub. It is variable and several varieties are recognized. The rather small dark green leaves are likewise somewhat variable and rather sharp toothed. Thi... |
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Common Name: Georgia Oak
Georgia Oak is a rare, small deciduous tree in the Red Oak group. It is essentially restricted to granite outcrops in west-central Georgia where it can be stunted and shrub-like. Given a good site with acid soil it makes a very nice small, or even m...
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Common Name: Chisos Red Oak
Chisos Red Oak is a deciduous tree with rather narrow sharply toothed leaves that give excellent red late fall color, especially in cooler and higher locations. It is native to mountain areas in west Texas and appears tolerant of acid or alkaline soi...
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Common Name: Darlington Oak
Large, fast-growing tree much used as a street tree and shade tree in the South. It is almost evergreen and resembles Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) but is more upright and not so long-lived. Sometimes confused with Quercus laurifolia, a bottomland...
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Common Name: Overcup Oak
Overcup Oak is a large deciduous tree found on floodplains and bottomlands in the eastern and central U.S. It is a round crowned tree that makes a good shade tree or street tree. It is adapatable to well-drained or poorly drained soils. Overcup Oak...
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Common Name: Dwarf Live Oak
Quercus minima is a dwarf evergreen oak related to Quercus virigniana. The foliage is similar to Live Oak and is usually entire on older wood or holly-like on new sprouts. It forms colonies in frequently burned sandy pine flatwoods of the southern ...
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Common Name: Chinquapin Oak
Chinquapin Oak is a large deciduous tree with chestnut-like serrated leaves. It makes a good shade tree and is especially good for well-drained high pH soils since it typically occurs on such sites in eastern and southwe... |
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Common Name: Chinese Evergreen Oak
The most cold hardy evergreen oak. Extremely heat and soil tolerant. Smooth gray Beech-like bark. Superb small street or lawn tree. Handsome. Tolerates clay soil. Hardy to Washington, DC. (See DIRR)...
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Common Name: Nuttall Oak
Nuttal Oak, named for the early 19th century botanist, Thomas Nuttal, is now called Quercus texana by some botanists. It is a large deciduous red oak native to bottomland forests, primarily in the Gulf Coast states. It is a good choice for a shade ...
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Common Name: Oglethorpe Oak
Rare medium-sized southeastern oak first described from Oglethorpe County, GA by Wilbur Duncan in 1940. Very local distribution in GA and SC. Reported in Louisiana. Narrow deciduous foliage turns orange-red in fall.&nbs... |
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Common Name: Cherrybark Oak
Quercus pagoda (or Quercus falcata var. pagodafolia)is a large deciduous oak of the red oak group. The leaves are the shape of a pagoda silhouette. It is a component of southern bottomland hardwood forests and is a high value timber tree. It is al...
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Common Name: Durmast Oak
Durmast Oak is a large deciduous tree related to English Oak (Quercus robur)but with longer petioles and almost sessile acorns. Both are native to Europe and are the two oaks native to Britain. Quercus petrea is an important forest tree in Europe an...
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Common Name: Downy Oak
Quercus pubescens is a medium to large broad crowned deciduous tree, often broader than tall. I has round lobed but variable downy leaves. Long cultivated in Europe but not well known in U.S. It is native to southern Europe and Asia Minor. Plant i...
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Common Name: Runner Oak
Runner Oak is a low-growing deciduous oak with stiff willow-like leaves. It is a component of the fire maintained southern pine forests of the Coastal Plain of the southern U.S. where it forms large colonies which produce abundant acorns when only a...
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Common Name: Pyrenean Oak
Pyrenean Oak is a medium to large deciduous tree native to the Pyrenees Mountains of southern France, Spain, and Portugal. It can be shrubby or a wide spreading tree with pendant branches. The deeply lobed leaves are gray-green and very distinctive...
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Common Name: English Oak
The English Oak is a very large and long-lived deciduous tree native to Europe and one of two oaks native to Britain where there are many ancient "named" specimens. There are also many named varieties that have been selected. It makes an admirable ...
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Common Name: Nothern Red Oak
A large, 60 to 80 foot, deciduous tree with relatively large, coarsely toothed leaves and rather smooth bark. A good shade tree with red fall color. Develops chlorosis at high pH soil so best on acid soils that are well-drained. An important timber...
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Common Name: Shumard's Scarlet Oak
Shumard Oak is an excellent pyramidal red oak to 60 feet or more tall. The lobed, bristle-tipped deciduous leaves have a good red fall color. Native to eastern North America, it is easily transplanted and widely planted as a handsome, adaptable, an...
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Common Name: Post Oak
Post Oak is a large, long-lived, deciduous tree with rounded crown and stout, spreading branches. It is in the white oak group. It is native to eastern North America where it grows on a variety of well-drained soils. Post Oak can be identified by ...
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Common Name: Cork Oak
Cork Oak is a spreading medium size tree with dull evergreen leaves about 2 inches long and with slight marginal serrations. It is native to the Mediterranean region where it's bark is harvested as the source of commercial cork. Cork production is p...
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From California we obtained seed of Quercus turbinella x lobata x turbinella. This hybrid between two western oaks and backcrossed to one of them is sort of what may be expected with 2/3 Quercus turbinella. This hybrid has blue-green holly-like lea...
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Common Name: Live Oak
Live Oak is a magnificent broadspreading, massive, and long-lived evergreen tree that is beloved and well-known in the southern U.S. where it is native from Virginia to Texas. Live Oak has 2-3 inch long entire leaves and typically branches low to the...
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