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Quercus palustris, also called pin oak, [4] swamp oak, or Spanish oak, [5] is a tree in the red oak section (Quercus sect. Lobatae) of the genus Quercus. Pin oak is one of the most commonly used landscaping oaks in its native range due to its ease of transplant, relatively fast growth, and pollution tolerance.
The acorns tend to be ellipsoid (ellipse-shaped, from which its scientific name derives), though they tend to be highly variable and range to globose, 6–11 millimeters (1 ⁄ 4 – 7 ⁄ 16 in) long and 10–19 mm (13 ⁄ 32 – 3 ⁄ 4 in) broad, a third to a half covered in a deep cup, green maturing pale brown about 18 months after ...
Quercus hartwissiana Steven – Strandzha oak – southeastern Bulgaria, northern Turkey, western Georgia, southwestern Russia; Quercus havardii Rydb. – Havard oak, shinnery oak, shin oak – south central North America †Quercus hiholensis — Miocene — # Washington State [4] Quercus hinckleyi C.H.Mull. – Hinckley oak – # Texas ...
Quercus species by common names — the oaks ... Bamboo-leaf oak; Bastard white oak; Bear Oak; ... Pin Oak; Portuguese oak; Post Oak;
Oak wood chips are used for smoking foods such as fish, meat, and cheese. [87] [88] In Japan, Children's Day is celebrated with Kashiwa-mochi rice cakes, filled with a sweet red bean paste, and wrapped in a kashiwa oak leaf. [89] The bark of the cork oak is used to produce cork stoppers for wine bottles.
It can be mistaken for the pin oak, the black oak (Q. velutina), or occasionally the red oak (Q. rubra). On the scarlet oak the sinuses between lobes are C-shaped in comparison to pin oak, which has U-shaped sinuses and the acorns are half covered by a deep cap. [8] Additionally, pin oak foliage generally turns bronze in autumn.
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Northern red oak is the most common species of oak in the northeastern US after the closely related pin oak (Q. palustris). The red oak group as a whole are more abundant today than they were when European settlement of North America began as forest clearing and exploitation for lumber much reduced the population of the formerly dominant white ...