Sickle-leaved oak

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Sickle-leaved oak
Quercus falcata in Marengo Alabama USA.JPG

Sickle-leaved oak ( Quercus falcata )

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

The sickle-leaved oak ( Quercus falcata ) is a small tree from the genus of oaks in the beech family . The distribution area is in the USA.

description

The sickle-leaved oak is a tree up to 30 meters high with an egg-shaped to rounded, open crown and gray, initially flat-cracked, later deep and narrowly furrowed bark . The inner bark is orange, the shoots are initially hairy red-brown. The leaves are 10 to 30 centimeters long and 6 to 16 centimeters wide, obovate to oblong, with a pointed or pointed end and a rounded or sometimes wedge-shaped base. The blade is deeply lobed with 3 to 7 sickle-shaped lobes. It has entire margins or has a few teeth. Both sides of the leaf are initially hairy, later the top is glossy dark green, the underside is silvery-white tomentose. The stem is initially hairy and 3 to 3.5 millimeters long. The fruits are about 1.2 to 1.4 centimeters long, light reddish brown, rounded, very short stalked and sit in a flat fruit cup with pressed scales. The fruits ripen in the second year.

  • bark

  • leaves

  • fruit

Distribution and ecology

Distribution map

The distribution area is in the east and in the middle of the USA it extends from New York to Illinois in the north and from Florida to Texas in the south. It grows at a height of 0 to 800 meters in species-poor forests on dry to fresh, acidic to slightly alkaline, sandy-humic soils in sunny to light-shaded locations. The species loves warmth and is sensitive to frost.

Systematics and research history

The sickle-leaved oak ( Quercus falcata ) is a species from the genus of oaks ( Quercus ) in the beech family (Fagaceae). The first description was made in 1801 by André Michaux in the Histoire des chênes de l'Amérique, ... .

The species forms hybrids with Quercus ilicifolia , Quercus imbricaria , Quercus incana , Quercus laevis , Quercus laurifolia , Quercus marilandica , Quercus nigra , Quercus pagoda , Quercus phellos , Quercus shumardii , Quercus hemisphaerica and Quercus velutina .

use

The species is used very rarely. However, it was used by the indigenous population for a wide variety of purposes, for example against stomach upset, diarrhea, fever and others.

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. 499.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 499
  2. ↑ a b c Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 499
  3. ↑ a b c d Quercus falcata. In: Flora of North America Vol. 3. www.eFloras.org, accessed December 30, 2011 .
  4. ↑ a b Quercus falcata. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed December 30, 2011 .

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