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Common forest trees of North Carolina

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  • > -£ggp«3^-£= JS> -££%^s£§>- ST TREES OVERCUP OAK (Qucrcus lyrata Walt.) THE overcup oak, sometimes known as swamp post oak, is a large tree with small, often pendulous branches rarely reaching a height of 100 feet and a diameter of 3 feet. It occurs in river bottoms and rich low grounds of the Coastal Plain and the Mississippi basin, but is nowhere very abundant. The leaves are 7 to 9 inches long, 1 to 4 inches broad, oblong, wider towards the point, narrowed at the base, dark green above, whitish beneath, with 7 to 9 distinct, deep, pointed lobes. They frequently turn to a bright scarlet or to scarlet and orange in the fall. The bark is rough, flaky, gray tinged with red. The flowers open in April writh the unfolding of the leaves. The acorn, or fruit, ripens the first year. It is thoroughly characteristic of the species. The large rounded or somewhat flattened acorn, one-half to 1 inch long, is nearly covered by the ovate or nearlj spherical cup, which is thickened at the base but gradually grows thinner to the thin, often irregularly split, margin of the cup. The name of the tree comes from this characteristic. The wood is heavy, hard, strong and durable and is used for the same purposes as that of white oak. OVERCUP OAK Leaf, one-third natural size. Twig, two-thirds natural size. 37
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