Quercus marilandica
Black oak ( Quercus marilandica )
The black oak ( Quercus marilandica ) is a deciduous tree of the genus of oaks. Their natural habitat is located in the eastern United States.
Description
The Black Oak is a small, deciduous, about 10 meters to 15 meters high rare, slow-growing and gnarled tree or shrub. Your bark is dark gray, rough, thick and torn into small fields. The inner bark is orange. Young twigs are hairy tomentose in the first year, bare and brown in the second year. The leaves are broadly obovate, usually 7 to 20 inches long and as wide, rough with a blunt tip and a rounded base. The upper third is flat three-to five-lobed. The lobes are rounded and often accompanied by a short, bristly awn. The upper leaf surface is glossy dark green and initially covered with stellate hairs, the lower leaf surface is hairy and bright rust-colored. The petiole is 1 to 2 inches long. The leaves turn brown in autumn or yellow. The fruits are oblong ovate about 2 inches long and sit individually or in pairs on a thick, short and hairy stem. They are surrounded about one third to one half of the hairy and provided with wide, pressed- shed fruit cups. The black oak flowers in spring, the fruits ripen in the second year after flowering.
Distribution and ecology
The distribution of Black Oak is located in the eastern U.S., extending from the northeast to Florida and in the prairie states. Where it grows in species-poor forests and copses on moderately dry to moderately moist, acidic to neutral and sandy soils in full sun to light shade locations at altitudes of up to 900 meters. They are not found on calcareous soils. The species prefers warm temperatures and frost.
Systematics and history of research
The black oak ( Quercus marilandica ) is a species in the genus of oaks. It was first described by Otto von Munchausen 1770, the fifth volume of his six -volume work The householder. Synonyms of species are Quercus nigra Wangh. non L. and Quercus firruginea Michx ..
Use
The wood is rare and usually only used as firewood, but the way due to the remarkable fall foliage attractive. The Choctaw use parts of the tree against cramping and to support the birth.