Shingle oak

Shingle oak
	leaves
Systematics
	Rosids
	Eurosiden I
Order :	Beech-like (Fagales)
Family :	Beech family (Fagaceae)
Genre :	Oak trees ( Quercus )
Type :	Shingle oak
Scientific name
	Quercus imbricaria
	Michx.

The shingle oak ( Quercus imbricaria ) is a medium-sized tree from the genus of oak in the beech family . The distribution area is in the northeast and southeast of the USA.

description

The shingle oak is a tree up to 25 meters high with a conical to rounded, loose crown. The bark is dark gray and becomes flat and irregularly cracked with age, the inner bark is pink. The shoots are bare. The leaves are 8 to 20 centimeters long, oblong lanceolate to ovate, pointed at both ends with entire margins with a wavy edge. The midrib ends in a sometimes indistinct awning tip. The upper side of the leaf is glossy dark green, the underside pale green and hairy. The petiole is 0.5 to 1.5 inches long. The fruits are 1 to 1.5 centimeters long, almost spherical, with short stems and one-third to one-half of which is surrounded by a flat fruit cup . The fruits ripen in the second year. The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 24}$

tribe

Distribution and ecology

The distribution area is in the northeast, southeast and the middle of the USA. It grows at a height of 100 to 700 meters in floodplains and on river banks on moderately dry, fresh to moist, slightly acidic to neutral, sandy soils in sunny to light-shaded locations. The species loves warmth and is usually frost hardy.

Systematics and research history

The shingle oak ( Quercus imbricaria ) is a species from the genus of oaks ( Quercus ) in the beech family (Fagaceae). It was first described in 1801 by André Michaux in the Histoire des chênes de l'Amérique,… .

The species forms hybrids with Quercus coccinea , Quercus falcata , Quercus ilicifolia , Quercus marilandica , Quercus palustris , Quercus phellos , Quercus rubra , Quercus shumardii and Quercus velutina .

use

The shingle oak is used very economically. In the past, shingles were made from their wood , which gave them the name of shingle oak. The Cherokee used the bark for indigestion, chronic diarrhea, inflammation of the oral mucosa, cracked skin, chills and fever.

Others

The largest specimen of the shingle oak in Germany is the Meschwit mark, which was planted in 1880 by forester Friedrich Wilhelm Meschwitz in the St. Pauli cemetery in Dresden and is one of the memorial trees in Dresden .

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. 501.

Individual evidence

↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 501
↑ ^a ^b ^c Roloff et al .: Flora of the Woods , p. 501
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Quercus imbricaria. In: Flora of North America Vol. 3. United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 30, 2011 .
↑ ^a ^b Quercus imbricaria. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 30, 2011 .

Web links

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[deutsch-1] German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 501

[FdG-2] Roloff et al .: Flora of the Woods , p. 501

[FoNA-3] Quercus imbricaria. In: Flora of North America Vol. 3. United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 30, 2011 .

[GRIN-4] Quercus imbricaria. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 30, 2011 .