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Black Oak Tree
Quercus velutina
Photo courtesy of Northern Research Station - USDA Forest Service.
Black oak (Quercus velutina) is a common, medium-sized to large oak of the eastern and midwestern United States. It is sometimes called yellow oak, quercitron, yellowbark oak, or smoothbark oak. It grows best on moist, rich, well-drained soils, but it is often found on poor, dry sandy or heavy glacial clay hillsides where it seldom lives more than 200 years. Good crops of acorns provide wildlife with food. The wood, commercially valuable for furniture and flooring, is sold as red oak. Black oak is seldom used for landscaping.
The black oak is the working-man's forest tree. Not particularly spectacular or elegant, often gnarled and leaning, this oak is neither graceful nor majestic, yet it is found in almost every eastern environment, from poor soil to rich, from wet forest to dry. It flowers in the spring, photosynthesizes through summer, and feeds the forest critters with its acorns in the fall. Valued in colonial times for the yellow dye that can be extracted from its inner bark, but now largely ignored by society, this tree minds it own business in the canopies of our eastern forests.
Black oak belongs to the red oak subgenus. It has larger acorn caps than the red oak, and they usually cover approximately half of the acorn, which is usually smaller than that of the red oak. The bark of the black oak is dark gray, and fractures into a scaly pattern, unlike the smooth barks of the red and pin oaks. The leaves are sometimes hairy, and show a very high degree of variability in shape. The flowers are wind pollinated.
DESCRIPTION
LEAVES: Shiny, 4-12 inches, with spines, hairy, shape highly variable
NUTS: Medium-sized acorn, with a cap covering about half the fruit
BARK: Dark gray, scaly in medium to old age
FLOWERS: Wind pollinated, stringy
Black Oak Trees... The trees are between 12" and 24" tall when shipped... And shipped Bare Root...
Shipping and planting times are winter and spring months. Please choose from following months: November thru April. But we will make exceptions with limited warranties due to heat during shipping.
And, any tree shipped during normal green and growth months ...which is May through October is going to arrive with brown, burned leaves. They will recover and go green again, but they are going to look dead on arrival.
PRICING AS FOLLOWS:
2 Black Oak Trees = $12.95 plus $9.50 s/h.
10 Black Oak Trees = $33.95 plus $12.50 s/h.
25 Black Oak Trees = $49.95 plus $20.00 s/h.
50 Black Oak Trees = $89.95 plus $25.00 s/h.
100 Black Oak Trees = $178.00 plus $32.50 s/h.
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