Black Oak
(Quercus velutina )

Tree Description

The mature tree has a medium sized shape with an irregular top and a tapering, limby trunk.

Leaf Description
 

• Leaf Texture is glabrous
  
• Leaf Margin is entire
• Leaf Venation is pinnate 
• Leaf Arrangement is opposite
• Leaf Division simple
• Leaf Attachment is petiolate
• Leaf Shape is pinnately lobed 

 Bark Description
       

Bark is thick, and blackish-grey and has an enlarged trunk and buttressed at the base.

Twig and Bud Description

                
   Buds are large and pointed with reddish-brown overlapping scales.

Fruit Description 

Description Coming Soon.

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Resources:

• http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/main.htm
• Symonds, George W. D. The Tree Identification Book. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1958.
• Trees and Nonflowering Plants. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.,1998