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Quercus pagoda, the cherrybark oak, is one of the most highly valued red oaks in the southern United States. It is larger and better formed than southern red oak and commonly grows on more moist sites. Its strong wood and straight form make it an excellent timber tree.
Quercus falcata, also called southern red oak, spanish oak, [4] bottomland red oak or three-lobed red oak is an oak (part of the genus Quercus).Native to the southeastern United States, it gets its name the "Spanish Oak" as these are the areas of early Spanish colonies, whilst "southern red oak" comes from both its range and leaf color during late summer and fall. [5]
Forms range from upright to trailing; [5] the upright forms can reach between 1.2–1.8 metres (4–6 ft) tall. [6] The leaves are evergreen, 2–4 cm ( 3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and 2–5 mm ( 1 ⁄ 16 – 3 ⁄ 16 in) broad, green above, and white below, with dense, short, woolly hair.
Florida rosemary can grow to 1.8 metres (6 ft) tall. The growth form is a rounded shrub with dense branching. Dark green leaves are needle-like, eight to twelve mm long and one mm wide, and smell like the herb rosemary.
They usually have fewer species present than do scrubs dominated by sand pines or oaks. The exclusion of fire from scrub areas has allowed other species to encroach on rosemary balds so that they have become oak scrubs and, eventually, xeric oak hammocks. [60] The dominant species in rosemary scrubs are Florida rosemary and sand pine. [61]
With the Shumard Oak's ability to tolerate and thrive in a wide range of soil types, it is cultivated at least as far north as Ottawa, Ontario and southern Quebec, and as far south as Lake Worth Beach, Florida. [9] Shumard oak lumber is grouped with other red oak lumber for use in flooring, furniture, interior trim, decorative molding, paneling ...
The current oak–hickory forest includes the former range of the oak–chestnut forest region, which encompassed the northeast portion of the current oak–hickory range. When the American chestnut population succumbed to invasive fungal blight in the early 20th century, those forests shifted to an oak and hickory dominated ecosystem.
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 ...