. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 11. Forests and forestry. lU SCRUB CHESTNUT OAK Quercus prinoides, Willdenow FORM^Usually a low shrub from 2-8 ft. high, but may attain a height of 18 ft. with a diameter of 4 inches. Usually occurs in clumps but may occur solitary. BASK—Thin, bitter, light brown, marked with light gray blotches, at flrst smooth, but later when trunk reaches a diameter of 4 inches it becomes rough. TWIGS—Smooth, slender, at first dark green and rusty-pubescent but later reddish-brown and smooth, marked with rather inconspicuous pale lenticels. BVDS—Alternat
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 11. Forests and forestry. lU SCRUB CHESTNUT OAK Quercus prinoides, Willdenow FORM^Usually a low shrub from 2-8 ft. high, but may attain a height of 18 ft. with a diameter of 4 inches. Usually occurs in clumps but may occur solitary. BASK—Thin, bitter, light brown, marked with light gray blotches, at flrst smooth, but later when trunk reaches a diameter of 4 inches it becomes rough. TWIGS—Smooth, slender, at first dark green and rusty-pubescent but later reddish-brown and smooth, marked with rather inconspicuous pale lenticels. BVDS—Alternate, ovate, rounded at apex, light brown, covered with thin overlapping scales which are sometimes hairy on margin. LEAVES—Alternate, simple, obovate, 3-6 inches long, 2-3 inches wide, covered beneath with pale tomentum, short and stout-petioled, margined with 8-7 rounded teeth on each margin and terminated with acute or acuminate apex. LEAF-SCABS—See "Leaf-Scars" under "White Oak, page 188. FLOWERS—Appear about May when leaves are about i developed. Slamlnate aments lj-2i inches long, yellow and somewhat hairy. Pistillate flowers are short-stelked and bear bright red pistils. FRUIT—An acorn, maturing at end of flrst season; M of an inch long, sessile or short- stalked, often produced In great abundance, singly or in pairs. Nut oval, light chertnut-brown; when young striated with dark longitudinal lines; blunt-pointed, shiny except at apex where It is often covered with pale down. Kernel sweet and edible. Cup thin, rather deep, covers about 4 of nut, pale woolly outside, downy Inside. Scales are indistinct, thinner towards apex, often knobby or tumid towards base. WOOD—Ring porous; with conspicuous medullary rays, of small size. Locally used for fuel. DISTINOUISHINa CHARACTERISTICS—The Scrub Chestnut Oak, also known as Dwarf Chin- quapin Oak, Chinquapin Oak and Scrub Oak, can readily be distinguished from most of the Oaks of Pennsylvania by its dw
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