Basket oak

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Basket oak
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Basket oak ( Quercus michauxii )

Systematics
Rosids
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Order : Beech-like (Fagales)
Family : Beech family (Fagaceae)
Genre : Oak trees ( Quercus )
Type : Basket oak
Scientific name
Quercus michauxii
Nutt.

The basket oak ( Quercus michauxii ) is a large tree belonging to the genus oak in the beech family . The distribution area is in North America .

description

The basket oak is a tree up to 30 meters high with a rounded, compact crown. The bark is light brown to gray and dissolves in thin scales. Young shoots are hairy. The leaves are 10 to 28 centimeters long and 5 to 18 centimeters wide, obovate to obovate-oblong, pointed or pointed with a wedge-shaped or rounded base. The blade is roughly unevenly serrated with 10 to 14 blunt teeth on each side. The upper side of the leaf is shiny, fresh green, the lower side is velvety gray-tomentose. The petiole is 1.5 to 3.5 inches long. The light brown fruits are 2.5 to 3.5 centimeters long, elongated, elliptical, sitting or short-stalked and one third is surrounded by a scaly fruit cup . The scales are thick at the base, the top forming a stiff, fringed hem. The acorns grow individually or in pairs.

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Distribution and ecology

Distribution map

The distribution area is in the northeast, southeast and the middle of the USA from Indiana and Illinois to Florida and Texas. It grows at a height of 0 to 600 meters in floodplains and on river banks on fresh to moist, acidic to neutral, sandy-gravelly soils in sunny locations. The species loves warmth and is usually frost hardy.

Systematics and research history

The basket oak ( Quercus michauxii ) is a species from the genus of oaks ( Quercus ) in the beech family (Fagaceae). It was first described in 1818 by Thomas Nuttall in The Genera of North American Plants . It honors the French botanist François André Michaux .

use

The basket oak is very rarely used economically.

proof

literature

  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 503.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 503
  2. ↑ a b c Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 503
  3. ↑ a b Quercus michauxii. In: Flora of North America Vol. 3. United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 30, 2011 .
  4. ↑ a b Quercus michauxii. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 30, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Swamp Chestnut Oak, pdf

Web links

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