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Common forest trees of North Carolina

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  • ^-#^.«*f?~<s -€>-^p<«i>- REST TREES LIVE OAK (Quercus virginiana Mill.) THE live oak extends from southeastern Virginia through the lower Coastal Plain of North Carolina and southward. It is a tree of striking character from its wide-spreading habit, sometimes reaching more than 100 feet in spread; with a short, stout trunk, 3 to 4 feet in diameter, dividing in several large limbs with nearly horizontal branches, forming a low, dense, round-topped head. Its height is commonly from 40 to 50 feet. The bark on the trunk and large branches is dark brown tinged with red, and slightly furrowed. It grows to largest size on the rich hammocks and low ridges near the coast and only a few feet above the water level. It is one of the most desirable trees for roadside and ornamental planting in the Coastal Plain. It is of moderately slow growth but long-lived and handsome. The leaves are simple, evergreen, thick, leathery, oblong, smooth above, pale and silvery white beneath ; from 2 to 4 inches in length and 1 to 2 inches in breadth. The fruit is an acorn about an inch long and one- third inch wide, borne on a long stem or peduncle; it is oblong, dark brown and lustrous, and set in a top-shaped, downy cup of a light reddish-brown color. The wood is very heavy, hard, strong and tough, light brown or yellow, with nearly white, thin sap- wood. It was formerly largely used, and still is occasionally, for ships' knees in building wooden ships. LIVE OAK Two-thirds natural size. 40
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