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Quercus robur acorns in various stages of ripening, on an oak plank, Sweden. Quercus robur is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture work. The wood is identified by a close examination of a cross-section perpendicular to fibres. The wood is characterised by its distinct ...
Quercus alba (white oak) [144] Yields high-quality wood that tolerates a range of soils. The acorns are an important food source for more than 180 wildlife species. Uses: timber; landscaping, sap resins, veneers. [145] All
Oak timber is a strong and hard wood with many uses, such as for furniture, floors, building frames, and veneers. [70] The wood of a red oak Quercus cerris (the Turkey oak) has better mechanical properties than those of the white oaks Q. petraea and Q. robur; the heartwood and sapwood have similar mechanical properties. [71]
– California scrub oak – # California; Quercus bicolor Willd. – swamp white oak – eastern and midwestern North America; Quercus × bimundorum E.J.Palmer — two worlds oak; Quercus boyntonii Beadle – Boynton's post oak – south central North America; Quercus canariensis Willd. – Mirbeck's oak or Algerian oak – # North Africa & Spain
Quercus ilex, the holm oak, [2] [3] also (ambiguously, as many oaks are evergreen) evergreen oak, [4] is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean region. It is a member of the section Ilex of the genus, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] with acorns that mature in a single summer.
The forest floor is now littered with apples and acorns. Outdoors Columnist Oak Duke shares what that means for deer hunting this fall. Deer hunting in a bumper crop year: How to capitalize on ...
The fruit is an acorn, 8–12 millimeters (5 ⁄ 16 – 15 ⁄ 32 in) long, and almost as wide as long, with a shallow cup; it is one of the most prolific producers of acorns. [2] The tree starts acorn production around 15 years of age, earlier than many oak species. [3] Autumn foliage
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