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Economic uses are primarily as an ornamental tree and the wood for pulp and paper production, but also for lumber; it is often marketed as "red oak" wood. [citation needed]The willow oak is one of the most popular trees for horticultural planting, due to its rapid growth, hardiness, balance between axial and radial dominance, ability to withstand both sun and shade, light green leaf color and ...
Quercus incana is a species of oak known by the common names bluejack oak, upland willow oak, sandjack oak, and cinnamon oak.It is native to the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the United States, from Virginia around Florida to Texas and inland to Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Quercus viminea, the Sonoran oak, [3] or Mexican willow oak, [1] is a North American species of oak.It is native to northwestern and west-central Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, Nayarit, Jalisco), primarily in the Sierra Madre Occidental.
Quercus phellos (willow oak) [176] Widely planted as an ornamental. Harvested for timber and pulp. Grows rapidly on damp alluvial soils, often near waterways. Uses: timber; landscaping, pulpwood. [177] CT IL OH, the Southeast and the Mid-Atlantic
Quercus phellos L. – willow oak – eastern North America; Quercus pinnativenulosa C.H.Mull. – Mexico; Quercus planipocula Trel. – western Mexico; Quercus pumila Walter – runner oak – # southeastern North America; Quercus radiata Trel. – Mexico (southern Sierra Madre Occidental) Quercus robusta C.H.Mull. – Chisos Mountains of Texas
Cherrybark oak usually has a relatively branch-free merchantable bole in contrast with other bottomland red oaks such as water and willow oak. Because of its good form and quality, cherrybark is regarded as one of the best red oaks.
In the 1700s, a young botanist scandalized some by discussing “birds and bees” of pollination, and awarding Latin names to plants and animals.
An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family. They have spirally arranged leaves, often with lobed edges, and a nut called an acorn, borne within a cup. The genus is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere; it includes some 500 species, both deciduous and evergreen. Fossil oaks date back to the Middle Eocene.