. The Caribbean forester. Forests and forestry Caribbean Area Periodicals; Forests and forestry Tropics Periodicals. j- COPEY OAK, QUBRCU5 COPBYBNSIS, IN COSTARICA Elbert Lo Little, Jr0 JJo So Department of Agrioulture, Forest Servioe Washington,, Do Co Copey oak, Quercus oopeyensis Co H0 Muller, of Costa Rica came into prominence in 1943 as perhaps "the largest oak tree in the world" and forming an unusually large virgin stand of almost pure oak timber0 Just a year earlier it had "been named as a new species on the basis of a few dried botanical specimenso The discovery of this
. The Caribbean forester. Forests and forestry Caribbean Area Periodicals; Forests and forestry Tropics Periodicals. j- COPEY OAK, QUBRCU5 COPBYBNSIS, IN COSTARICA Elbert Lo Little, Jr0 JJo So Department of Agrioulture, Forest Servioe Washington,, Do Co Copey oak, Quercus oopeyensis Co H0 Muller, of Costa Rica came into prominence in 1943 as perhaps "the largest oak tree in the world" and forming an unusually large virgin stand of almost pure oak timber0 Just a year earlier it had "been named as a new species on the basis of a few dried botanical specimenso The discovery of this extensive, unexplored forest of giant oaks (figure l) was made by Arthur Bevanc William R0 Barbour, and the author in February 1943 along the Pan American Highway then under construotiono Members of this field party of the Latin American Forest Resources Project, of the United States Forest Service0 Barbour (l)0 Bevan (2)0 Dayton (3), and Merker and others (4)p have recorded the discovery of Copey oak and have described the treesc •(figures 2 and 3) their distribution, and associated species0. 1 *m^* n Fig. 1.—Copey oak forest along the Pan American Highway in Costa Rica, showing the tall trees with narrow crowns and stout branches laden with epiphytes. (Bosque de roble copey a lo largo de la carretera Panamerica- na en Costa iica, mostrando los arbo- les altos con copas estreohas y ramas gruesas cargadas de epifitas). =345=. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Southern Forest Experiment Station (New Orleans, La. ). Rio Piedras, P. R. : Tropical Forest Experiment Station, United States Forest Service
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