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PEORIA— The Illinois Office of Tourism and state Department of Natural Resources have set up a Fall Colors Trip Planner that helps identify the best place to look at the fall foliage.. The new ...
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Quercus michauxii, the swamp chestnut oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section Quercus section Quercus in the beech family. It is native to bottomlands and wetlands in the southeastern and midwestern United States, in coastal states from New Jersey to Texas, inland primarily in the Mississippi–Ohio Valley as far as Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.
The perfect apetalous, wind-pollinated flowers are red-green and appear in racemes up to 40 mm (2 in) long two weeks before the leaves from March to May, depending on the tree's location. The fruit is a broad ovate samara 13–25 mm ( 1 ⁄ 2 – 31 ⁄ 32 in) long covered with fine hair, notched at the tip, and maturing during May or June to ...
The leaves are pinnately compound on older trees but bipinnately compound on vigorous young trees. [4] The leaflets are 1.4–3.6 cm (1 ⁄ 2 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long when compound and very slightly smaller when bipinnate. [7] The leaves are green in summer and turn yellow in autumn in shades ranging from cream and tan to golden yellow. [8]
Millions of periodical cicadas are due to appear this spring. Should Illinois homeowners and gardeners be concerned?
The leaves are 8 to 13 centimetres (3–5 in) long and 5 to 8 centimetres (2–3 in) wide, and are thick, firm, dark green, shining above, and paler green below when full grown. In autumn they turn bright yellow. The leaf axils contain formidable spines which when mature are about 2.5 centimetres (1 in) long.
Oct. 30—Bagged leaf pickup for Springfield residents will be held twice through the end of the year. The pickup dates will be on Saturday, Nov. 19, and Dec. 10, city officials announced.