Squirrel Food Producing Plant Shade Tree For Sale In Colorado

* Tolerate: Drought, Dry Soil, Black Walnut, Air Pollution. * Prefers a good deep fertile loam which can be on the stiff side. * Trees may live up to 500 years according to the USDA , and a living example of 326 years was noted in 2001 by Orwig et al.

* Quercus muehlenbergii, (its scientific name often misspelt muhlenbergii) is native to eastern and central North America, ranging from Vermont west to Wisconsin and south to South Carolina, western Florida, New Mexico, and northeastern Mexico from Coahuila...

* The seed is eaten raw or cooked. It has a sweet flavour and is highly esteemed by the Chinese. An edible oil from the seed is used in cooking. The seed ripens in late autumn and, when stored in its shell in a cool place, will keep for at least 6 months.

* It is grown and marketed mainly as pulpwood. * The acorns provide food for raccoons, White-tailed Deer, Wild Turkeys, squirrels, ducks, Bobwhite Quail, and small birds and rodents.

* This is a very popular shade and street tree which is conical when young and ultimately forms a rounded canopy with a tall unbranched trunk. * The pin oak is in the red oak subgenus: pointed lobes.The sinuses are very deeply cut and u-shaped.The amount...

* The seed is eaten raw or cooked. The seed ripens in late autumn and, when stored in its shell in a cool place, will keep for at least 6 months. The seed is up to 3cm long. Rather thin-shelled, the seed is small and sweet.

The acorns form a valuable food resource for several small mammals and some birds, notably Eurasian Jays Garrulus glandarius. * Quercus robur is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable heartwood, much in demand for interior and furniture...

Under optimal conditions it can grow 3' or more per year! Intense, long lasting orange-red fall color. Very uniform shape that required little pruning. 1 1/2 - 2' trees. Grows 50' tall and 40' wide.

Wonderfully versatile, it is tolerant of poor soil conditions, salt, ice, snow and extreme temperatures. Very fast growing 3-6' per year with buttery-yellow fall coloring. Developed in conjunction with the USDA, this beautiful landscape tree is completely...

* Quercus macrocarpa is cultivated by plant nurseries for use in gardens, parks, and as a street tree. Quercus , native to North America in the eastern and midwestern United States and south-central Canada .

* A short, tapering trunk supports picturesquely gnarled branches and limbs that over time will spread horizontally a great distance from the main trunk. Virginiana var. Unlike Coastal live oak, acorns are spindle-shaped (fusiform), narrowed at the base.

The oil from the seeds may be processed into soap or lubricants. * The fruits of the woodland elaeocarpus are edible. * The woodland elaeocarpus is found in China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang),...

* An oil is extracted from the seeds. It attains a tallow-like consistency on standing and is used to make candles.

* California Black Oak ( Quercus kelloggii ), also known as simply Black Oak , or Kellogg Oak , is an oak in the red oak section ( Quercus sect. * The cooked seed was used as a staple food by several native North American Indian tribes * Oaks may be the...

* A short, tapering trunk supports picturesquely gnarled branches and limbs that over time will spread horizontally a great distance from the main trunk. Virginiana var. Unlike Coastal live oak, acorns are spindle-shaped (fusiform), narrowed at the base.

* Trees are late coming into leaf (usually late May to June) and lose their leaves early in the autumn (usually in October). These factors combine to make the trees eminently suitable for a mixed woodland planting with shrubs and other trees beneath them.

These trees are capable of producing fruit that is a small, blue or black drupe. * The wood is hard, heavy, close-grained, very strong, rather brittle. The leaves vary in color from bright green to dark green.

* The tree is named after Nicholas Garry, deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1822–35. * Garry oak woodlands create a landscape mosaic of grassland, savanna, woodland, and closed-canopy forest.

It is drought-resistant, and prefers partial to full sunlight. It is closely related to Texas Red Oak ( Quercus buckleyi ), Nuttall's Oak ( Quercus texana ), and Chisos Red Oak ( Quercus gravesii ).

* Quercus muehlenbergii, (its scientific name often misspelt muhlenbergii) is native to eastern and central North America, ranging from Vermont west to Wisconsin and south to South Carolina, western Florida, New Mexico, and northeastern Mexico from Coahuila...

* It is named for Oglethorpe County, Georgia, where it was first discovered. * Oglethorpe oak is a medium to large deciduous tree with light gray scaly bark that resembles the bark of white oak (Quercus alba) or post oak (Quercus stellata) * Oglethorpe...

* Quercus acutissima lives in deciduous forests at altitudes of up to 2,200 metres (7,200 ft) in South Asia and South East Asia. * The acorns are eaten by jays, pigeons, and squirrels .

* Attractive compound leaves, gray-green when young, olive green when mature; white flowers in 5" erect clusters in June and July, "smell like new mown grass" (Dirr); attractive bark, "peeling with maturity, rich shining amber to brown, developing a curly...

A very good fuel, though it is almost impossible to split. It weighs 51lb per cubic foot. The wood is of a very high quality but the tree is not large enough to be used commercially.

* The fruit is edible raw or cooked. It is the longest living non-clonal flowering plant in Eastern North America, capable of obtaining ages of over 650 years. Pleasantly acidulous.

* Among the white oaks, it is one of the most tolerant of urban conditions, and is one of the fastest-growing of the group. * It commonly lives to be 200 to 300 years old, and may live up to 400 years.

Arizonica: The largest is 33.8 m tall, 133 cm dbh, near Ruidoso, New Mexico. * It differs from the species in having thicker, corky bark and more strongly glaucous foliage. * It is a medium-sized tree growing to 20 m tall.