. 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. 304 The Oaks. 21. SHINGLE OAK — Quercus imbricaria Michaux A tree of rich woods from Pennsylvania to Michigan and Nebraska southward to Georgia and Arkansas, attaining its largest dimensions, 30 meters high with a trunk diameter of m., in the central States. It is also known as Laurel oak, Jack oak, and Water oak. The trunk is straight, often free of branches for haK its height, with a round- topped crown; when young
. 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. 304 The Oaks. 21. SHINGLE OAK — Quercus imbricaria Michaux A tree of rich woods from Pennsylvania to Michigan and Nebraska southward to Georgia and Arkansas, attaining its largest dimensions, 30 meters high with a trunk diameter of m., in the central States. It is also known as Laurel oak, Jack oak, and Water oak. The trunk is straight, often free of branches for haK its height, with a round- topped crown; when young the lower drooping or spreading branches often touch the grojjnd. The bark is up to 4 cm. thick, sJjaSowIy and sparingly fissured into wide flat ridges, covered with close light reddish brown scales; that of younger stems is thiimer, light brown and shining. The twigs are dark green and shining, becoming dark brown. The winter buds are ovoid, acute, 3 mm. long, slightly angular, light brown and shining. The leaves are oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 6 to 20 cm. long, bristle-pointed, wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, entire, wavy, or rarely 3-toothed near the apex; they are thin and firm, dark green and very shining above, with a conspicuous broad yellow midrib, pale green or brownish and coated with soft hairs beneath, becoming bright red before falling in late au- tumn. The leaf-stalk is stout, flattened and grooved, to 2 cm. long. The flowers appear in April and May when the leaves are one third unfolded. The staminate catkins are loosely hairy, 5 to 8 cm. long; calyx 4-lobed, hairy and light yellow; stamens 4 or 5, exserted; anthers oblong, notched, smooth and yellow. The pistillate flowers are on stout woolly stalks, their involucral scales as long as the sharp hairy calyx-lobes; styles rather short, reflexed and yellow. The fruit, ripening in the autumn of the second season, is solitary, or two together, on short stalks; nut ovoid or subglobosc, i to cm
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