Scarlet Oak
Quercus coccinea
Fagaceae (Beech Family)
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Location near campus: Close Park, Botanical Center
Quercus coccinea:
Scarlet Oak
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leaves alternate, deciduous, simple, ovate with 7-9 bristle-tipped lobes--
major lobes are
"C"
shaped; 3-6" long and about 2/3 as wide; shiny dark green above; glabrous and
lighter green below with tufts of hair in vein axils sometimes
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stems light brown to red-brown, glabrous, angled with small gray lenticels
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buds are ovate (football shaped) dark red-brown and glabrous on bottom half,
pale woolly on top half
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bark is dark gray brown with shallow fissures--
like pin oak
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grows 70-75' tall and about
2
as wide
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acorns solitary or in pairs, 1/2-1" long, tapering toward tip; cap covers
2
to 1/3 of acorn; acorn often has concentric rings around tip
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prefers dry, upland sites
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medium to fast growth rate
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native to southeast Missouri