Quercus lyrata
Habit and branch with leaves and fruit
The Leierblättrige oak (Quercus lyrata ) is a small tree of the genus of oaks in the family of book -like. The distribution area is in the northeast and southeast of the United States.
Description
The Leierblättrige Oak is a 30 meter high tree with rounded crown regularly and often hanging branches and twigs. The bark is light gray split with slightly reddish tinge and in thick plates. The shoots are soft-hairy, but verkahlen with time. The leaves are 10 to 16, rarely up to 20 inches long and 5 to 10 rarely to 12 cm wide, obovate, pointed or blunt and lobed on each side irregular feathery with three or four lobes. There shall be four to six pairs of nerves. The upper leaf surface is dark green and hairless last, the underside white tomentose to pubescent. The petiole is 0.8 to 2 rarely 2.5 inches long. The light brown to gray fruits are 1.5 to 2.5 inches long, globose to ovoid, and surrounded to two-thirds of a hemispherical, outside graufilzigen fruit cups.
Acorns
Distribution and ecology
The distribution area is in the northeast, southeast and the center of the United States of Indiana and Illinois to Florida and Texas. It grows in 0 to 200 meters above sea level in floodplains, river banks and periodically flooded areas on fresh to moist, acidic to neutral, sandy-gritty soil in sunny locations. The species is frost hardy and tolerates heat moderately.
Systematics and history of research
The Leierblättrige oak (Quercus lyrata ) is a species in the genus of oaks (Quercus ) in the beech family ( Fagaceae ). The first description was in 1788 by Thomas Walter in the Flora Caroliniana.
Use
The Leierblättrige oak is used rarely economical.