Quercus michauxii
Basket Oak ( Quercus michauxii )
The basket oak ( Quercus michauxii ) is a large tree of the genus of oaks in the family of book -like. The distribution area is located in North America.
Description
The basket - Oak is a 30 -meter-high tree with rounded, compact crown. The bark is light brown to gray, and dissolves in thin flakes. Young shoots are hairy. The leaves are 10-28 cm long and 5-18 cm wide, obovate to oblong- ovate wrong, pointed or sharpened with a wedge-shaped or rounded base. The leaf blade is grossly irregular serrated with 10-14 blunt teeth on each side. The upper leaf surface is shiny fresh green, the underside graufilzig velvety. The petiole is 1.5 to 3.5 inches long. The light-brown fruits are 2.5 to 3.5 inches long, oblong elliptic, sessile or shortly stalked and surrounded one third of a scaly fruit cups. The scales are thick at the base, the upper form a stiff, frans -shaped hem. The acorns grow singly or in pairs.
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 600 meters above sea level in floodplains and along river banks on fresh to moist, acidic to neutral, sandy-gritty soil in sunny locations. The species is thermophilic and usually frost hardy.
Systematics and history of research
The basket oak ( Quercus michauxii ) is a species in the genus of oaks (Quercus ) in the beech family ( Fagaceae ). The first description was in 1818 by Thomas Nuttall in The Genera of North American Plants.
Use
The basket - oak is used very rarely economically.