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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 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 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 .
The 90-foot-tall willow oak, which towers over the street on the south edge of Nash Square in Raleigh, was cut down on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, due to old age and disease.
Chinkapin oak (Quercus muhlenbergii) Canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis) Overcup oak (Quercus lyrata) English oak (Quercus robur) Red oak. Northern red oak (Quercus rubra) Eastern black oak (Quercus velutina) Laurel oak (Quercus laurifolia) Southern red oak (Quercus falcata) Water oak (Quercus nigra) Willow oak (Quercus phellos) Nuttall's oak ...
Water oak, willow oak, sweetgum, blackgum, American elm, red maple, Southern red oak, swamp chestnut oak, and loblolly pine are typical. [32] Understory flora include holly, grape genus, poison ivy, crossvine, greenbriar, and a variety of ferns and mosses. [34] Bald cypress and water tupelo occur in semi-permanently flooded areas. [32]
– Chinkapin oak – eastern, central, and southwestern US (West Texas and New Mexico), northern Mexico; Quercus ningqiangensis S.Z.Qu & W.H.Zhang – southeastern China; Quercus oblongifolia Torr. – Arizona blue oak, Southwestern blue oak, or Mexican blue oak – # southwestern U.S., northwestern Mexico; Quercus obtusata Bonpl. – Mexico
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, ...