Quercus falcata
Sichelblättrige oak (Quercus falcata)
The Sichelblättrige oak (Quercus falcata ) is a small tree of the genus of oaks in the family of book -like. The distribution area is located in the USA.
Description
The Sichelblättrige Oak is up to 30 meter high tree with ovate to rounded, open crown and gray, initially flat cracking, later deep and narrow furrowed bark. The inner bark is orange, the shoots are initially hairy reddish brown. The leaves are 10-30 cm long and 6-16 cm wide, obovate to oblong, with pointed or sharpened and rounded or sometimes wedge base. The leaf blade is deeply sinuate lobed with 3-7 lobes crescent. She's margin entire or with a few teeth. Both leaf pages are initially pubescent, later the top is glossy dark green, the underside hairy silvery- white tomentose. The stem is hairy and initially 3 to 3.5 millimeters long. The fruits are about 1.2 to 1.4 inches long, light brown, rounded, very short stalked and sitting in a shallow fruit cups with the pressed scales. The fruits ripen in the second year.
Fruits
Distribution and ecology
The distribution area is in the east and in the middle of the U.S., it extends from New York to Illinois in the north and from Florida to Texas in the south. It grows in 0 to 800 meters above sea level in species-poor forests on dry to fresh, acidic to slightly alkaline, sandy, humus-rich soils in full sun to light shade locations. The species prefers warm temperatures and frost.
Systematics and history of research
The Sichelblättrige oak (Quercus falcata ) is a species in the genus of oaks (Quercus ) in the beech family ( Fagaceae ). The first description was in 1801 by André Michaux in the Histoire de l' Amérique the chênes ....
The species forms with Quercus ilicifolia, Quercus imbricaria, Quercus incana, Quercus laevis, Quercus laurifolia, Quercus marilandica, Quercus nigra, Quercus pagoda, Quercus phellos, Quercus shumardii, Quercus Quercus velutina hemisphaerica and hybrids.
Use
The species is very rarely used. However, it was used by the indigenous population for various purposes, as for stomach upsets, diarrhea, fever, and others.