8/8/2023 0 Comments Pin oak treeAttributes: Genus: Quercus Species: palustris Family: Fagaceae Uses (Ethnobotany): Due to its hardy stature, it is used often for an ornamental tree.Tags: #wildlife plant #moth caterpillar host #tsc #fast growing #nighttime garden #pollinator plant #larval host plant #food source fall #food source herbage #Coastal FACW #Piedmont Mountains FACW #wet soils tolerant #bird friendly #food source hard mast fruit #mammals #butterfly friendly #tsc-t #problem for horses #Audubon #banded hairstreak butterfly #gray hairstreak butterfly #imperial moth #juvenal’s duskywing butterfly #edward’s hairstreak butterfly #white-m hairstreak butterfly #horace’s duskywing butterfly #landscape plant sleuths course Profile Video: See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: VIDEO Created by Elizabeth Meyer for " Trees, Shrubs and Conifers" a plant identification course offered in partnership with Longwood Gardens. Disease problems include oak wilt, oak leaf blister, pin oak blight, and Dothiorella canker. Insect pests include gypsy moth, obscure scale, oak leaftier, pin oak sawfly, scarlet oak sawfly, forest tent caterpillar, leaf roller, horned oak gall wasp, and gouty oak gall wasp. It is susceptible to iron chlorosis due to alkaline soils, which cause yellow coloration in the leaves through the summer months and can eventually kill the tree. Insects, Diseases, and Other Plant Problems: Pin oak is infrequently attacked by the common diseases of oaks. Tan, rounded, acorn fruits with a thin smooth cap that covers one fourth to one third of the fruit.Long pendulous chains of yellow to greenish-yellow male flowers in the spring.Dark-green leaves on both sides with five to seven sharply pointed lobes and deep U-shaped sinuses, vein piercing through the margin at the tip of the leaf, bristles at the tip, and small tufts of tan-colored hair at the axils of the leaf veins.Medium-sized deciduous tree with a pyramidal habit when young, rounded and oval with age.It is tolerant of many soil conditions, heat, and air pollution, but it is toxic to horses. Pin oak is very popular and frequently used as a shade tree for home landscapes, urban streets, parks, and woodland gardens. This oak won’t begin producing acorns until around 15 to 20 years old. The fall foliage is orange, or bronze to red. Young trees and lower branches of older trees hold leaves throughout winter. The branching pattern is unique with the lowermost branches being angled sharply downward, the middle branches horizontal, and the upper branches ascending. The crown is pyramidal when young and becomes more rounded and oval with age. Pin oak has a more slender and graceful appearance than some oaks. It is shallow-rooted and easily transplanted. It can tolerate poorly drained soils and some flooding, but it is adaptable to drier and urban conditions. Pin oak prefers medium to wet, loamy, acidic soils and full sun. This tree is native to the northeastern and north-central United States and southeastern Canada. The epithet, palustris, is from the Latin word palus, which means of marshes or swamps and refers to its native habitat. The genus name, Quercus, is the Latin name for oak trees. Pin oak is a medium-sized, deciduous tree in the Fagaceae (beech) family and is one of the faster-growing red oaks, generally reaching a height of 50 to 70 feet with a trunk about 3 feet in diameter. Phonetic Spelling KWER-kus pa-LUS-tris This plant has low severity poison characteristics.
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