. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Cow Oak 331 51. COW OAK — Quercus Michauxii Nuttall This magnificent tree inhabits moist soils along streams and swamp borders, from Delaware to northern Florida, westward to Indiana, Missouri and Texas, attaining a maximum height of 35 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 m. It is also known as Basket oaE, Swamp oak, and Swamp chestnut oak. The straight trunk is often free of branches for half its height. The branches are
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Cow Oak 331 51. COW OAK — Quercus Michauxii Nuttall This magnificent tree inhabits moist soils along streams and swamp borders, from Delaware to northern Florida, westward to Indiana, Missouri and Texas, attaining a maximum height of 35 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 m. It is also known as Basket oaE, Swamp oak, and Swamp chestnut oak. The straight trunk is often free of branches for half its height. The branches are stout and ascending, the crown of old trees usually roimd-topped. The bark is up to cm. thick, separating into very thin flaky plates of a nearly white or reddish gray color. The twigs are stout, dark green and hairy, soon becoming smooth, hght reddish or orange-brown, and finally gray. The buds are ovoid or oval, 6 mm. long, sharp- pointed and dark red. The leaves are obovate or broadly oblong, 10 to 20 cm. long, sharp or short taper-pointed, wedge-shaped or narrowly rounded at the base, coarsely roimd-toothed, sKghtly shin- ing with the midrib im- pressed above, pale, densely covered with short hairs and prominently veined beneath, turning dark reddish before falling in late autuinn; the leaf-stalk is stout, flattened, channelled, i to 3 cm. long. The flowers aplpear when the leaves are about half unfolded in April or May, the staminate in slender, hairy catkins to 10 cm. long; calyx minutely hairy, yellow-green, 4- to 7-lobed; stamens up to 7, their anthers broadly oblong, shghtly notched, smooth, and yel- low. The pistillate flowers are few or several, spicate, their involucres brownish hairy; styles short, broad, spreading, and dark red. The fruit ripens the first autumn, is solitary or 2 together on short stalks; nut oblong to ovoid, 3 to cm. long, bright brown, somewhat shining, its seed sweet and edible; cup deeply sau- cer-shaped, to cm. across, r
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