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Quercus macrocarpa, the bur oak or burr oak, is a species of oak tree native to eastern North America. It is in the white oak section, Quercus sect. Quercus , and is also called mossycup oak , mossycup white oak , blue oak , or scrub oak .
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, ...
Quercus alba, the white oak, is one of the preeminent hardwoods of eastern and central North America. It is a long-lived oak, native to eastern and central North America and found from Minnesota, Ontario, Quebec, and southern Maine south as far as northern Florida and eastern Texas. [3]
Plus a half-dozen other oak species, hickories, wild black cherry, two huge sycamores, a white pine, our native dry-land dogwood Cornus racemosa, as opposed to the large-flowered Cornus Florida ...
Pin oak grows 70-80 feet tall, 25-40 feet wide, and is hardy in Zones 3-9; nuttall oak grows 40-80 feet tall, 30-60 feet wide, and is hardy in Zones 6-9. Oaks for Dry Soil.
Live oak was widely used in early American butt shipbuilding.Because of the trees' short height and low-hanging branches, lumber from live oaks was used in curved parts of the frame, such as knee braces (single-piece, L-shaped braces that spring inward from the side and support the deck), in which the grain runs perpendicular to structural stress, making for exceptional strength.
Sawtooth oak trees also grow at a faster rate which helps it compete against native trees. The wood has many of the characteristics of other oaks, but is very prone to crack and split and hence is relegated to such uses as fencing. [10] Charcoal made using this wood is used especially for the braziers for heating water for the Japanese tea ...
Quercus robur, the pedunculate oak or English oak, [3] [4] is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae. It is a large tree, native to most of Europe and western Asia , and is widely cultivated in other temperate regions.