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* Acorns are an important source of food for wildlife. * An ornamental and shade tree, it is also suitable for hedges, screens, and windbreaks. Reaches its largest size in southern Illinois and Indiana.

* Sandalwood oil has been widely used in folk medicine for treatment of common colds, bronchitis * The use of S. Album in India is noted in literature for over two thousand years.

* Q.robur supports the highest biodiversity of insect herbivores of any British plant (>400 spp). The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small mammals and some birds, notably Eurasian Jays Garrulus glandarius.

* Willow oaks can grow moderately fast (height growth up to 60 cm / 2 feet a year), and tend to be conic to oblong when young, rounding out and gaining girth at maturity (i.e. more than 50 years) * The willow oak has leaves,somewhat like the willow.

In Missouri, the average number of mature acorns per tree was generally higher than for other oaks over a 5-year period, but the number of acorns differed greatly from year to year and from tree to tree within the same stand.

* The largest known Texas live oak grows in Real County, Texas. * A short, tapering trunk supports picturesquely gnarled branches and limbs that over time will spread horizontally a great distance from the main trunk.

An edible oil from the seed is used in cooking. Used for tool handles etc. A very good fuel, burning well and giving off a lot of heat. It has a sweet flavour and is highly esteemed by the Chinese.

The swamp chestnut oak's bark can be sliced into flexible strips suitable for basket weaving, and for this reason the species is sometimes called the "basket oak". * It is sometimes cultivated as a large garden tree or street tree, and is quite easy to...

* The swamp white oak is a medium-sized tree of America's north central and northeastern mixed forests. * Over 400 Swamp White Oak trees are being planted in the newly constructed September 11 Memorial Plaza in Manhattan.

* Compound leaves, dark green; 2" edible fruit, oily; furrowed dark gray bark; often of rather open habit, with a number of trunks and few internal branches; likes rich moist soil but adapts to drier sites; native to eastern North America

It has been widely planted in southern communities as a shade tree. Lobatae), native to the eastern and south-central United States, found in all the coastal states from New Jersey to Texas, and inland as far as Oklahoma, Kentucky, and southern Missouri.

* Willow oaks can grow moderately fast (height growth up to 60 cm / 2 feet a year), and tend to be conic to oblong when young, rounding out and gaining girth at maturity (i.e. more than 50 years) * The willow oak has leaves,somewhat like the willow.

* The swamp white oak is a medium-sized tree of America's north central and northeastern mixed forests. * Over 400 Swamp White Oak trees are being planted in the newly constructed September 11 Memorial Plaza in Manhattan.

* Differs from the straight species in that the nuts are heart-shaped, thin-shelled, and easily cracked. * Wyman says the kernals come out whole. * Grown mostly as a novelty due to the heart shaped fruit.

* Sandalwood oil has been widely used in folk medicine for treatment of common colds, bronchitis * The use of S. Album in India is noted in literature for over two thousand years.

* Naturally occuring hybrid between Silka Spruce and White Spruce.

* Tolerate: Drought, Dry Soil, Black Walnut, Air Pollution. * A fairly fast-growing tree, it is cultivated for its timber in C. * Prefers a good deep fertile loam which can be on the stiff side.

* Garry oak is the only native oak species in British Columbia, Washington State, and northern Oregon. * Garry oak woodlands create a landscape mosaic of grassland, savanna, woodland, and closed-canopy forest.

* Native to the Himalayas * It is a large evergreen tree growing to 40-60 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 2-2.5 m. * Vladimir Dinets (e-mail 2004.11.14) reports trees in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan, growing up to 60 m tall.

* Compound leaves, dark green; 2" edible fruit, oily; furrowed dark gray bark; often of rather open habit, with a number of trunks and few internal branches; likes rich moist soil but adapts to drier sites; native to eastern North America

* Propagation Seed - best sown as soon as it is ripe in a cold frame or in an outdoors seedbed if there is sufficient seed. Stored seed should be cold stratified for 3 - 4 months and sown as early as possible in the year.

* An oil is extracted from the seeds. It attains a tallow-like consistency on standing and is used to make candles.

* The Chinese Red Pine Pinus tabuliformis (?? Mature trees have reddish-scaled bark in the crown and fissured, dark gray bark near the ground. Oval, brown cones to 3.5” long. Yous?ng in Mandarin) is a pine native to northern China from Liaoning west...

* Needles to 10", cones to 3 1/2"; native to Yunnan, China. * Yunnan Pine ( Pinus yunnanensis ) is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family. It is found only in China ( Yunnan ).

* The seeds, similar to large pine nuts, are edible, and are extensively harvested in southern Brazil. * It requires a subtropical climate with abundant rainfall, tolerating occasional frosts down to about -5 – -20 °C (23–-4 °F).

* This is a lovely tree with fragrant red flowers in the spring and beautiful evergreen foliage. * This species is grown as an ornamental and used for timber.

* The fruit is readily eaten by birds. * Native Americans prepared decoctions of the inner bark for cough medicines and tea-like cold remedies. * The wood weighs about 36 lb per cubic foot and takes a beautiful polish.