Quercus
palustris
Ornamental
Quercus (Oak)
Moderate.
Lustrous, dark green leaves with five to seven deep, fine lobes. Deep red to bronze in late autumn, with an even more brilliant scarlet colour in cooler areas. Leaves often persist over winter. The winter buds are without a woolly covering which helps to distinguish this species from Q. coccinea.
Dark grey, fissuring with age in flat, scaly ridges.
Stout acorns around 12 mm long with a shallow, saucer-shaped cap.
Ovate, with a strong central leader. Conical when young, with ascending upper branches and drooping lower branches. Eventually becoming a large tree.
Grey-green to tan male catkin; yellow-green to tan female flower, matures to light brown acorn. Blooms in late winter early spring.
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