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Quercus velutina

 
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Quercus velutina - black oak
Image: Dillon, Kerry
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Common name: black oak (English)
Family: Fagaceae (Beech)
Distribution: Nova Scotia to PA, west to MN and IA
Hardiness: Zone 3 (-40 to -30 F)
Life form: Deciduous tree
Oak Collection: Oak Collection
Description: Deciduous tree to 20-30m, rarely to 45m. Bark black-brown, deeply fissured, fissures orange at center. Young branchlets brown-tomentose becoming glabrous, red-brown. Leaves 6-25- 4.5-15.5cm, narrowly ovate to obovate, often misshapen, apex acute, base truncate, margin deeply 5 or 7 lobed, lobes ovate to triangular, 1-3 bristle-tipped teeth, dark , glabrous and glossy above, paler, densely tomentose at first beneath, becoming scurfy with a few hairs in nerve axils; petiole 2.5-7cm. Acorns ripe in second year, solitary or paired, 1.5-2.5cm, ovoid to subglobose, pale brown; cupules made up of loosely overlaping hairy scales, enclosing half of acorn. 50' to 60' tall with variable spread; the crown is often quite irregular and can be narrow or wide-spreading, elongated or rounded; extensive tap-root.

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