Squirrel Food Producing Plant Shade Tree For Sale In Kansas City

* Shumard Oak is valued for commercial use, as a shade tree, and as a food source for various birds and mammals. * Shumard Oak is native to the Atlantic Coastal Plain primarily from North Carolina to northern Florida and west to central Texas; it is also...

* It is sometimes cultivated as a large garden tree or street tree, and is quite easy to grow if it is not subject to extreme urban conditions. It typically grows to around 65 ft (20 m) tall, though the tallest specimen currently known is over 42m tall.

It is a component of the forest cover type White Oak-Black Oak-Northern Red Oak . * Chinkapin oak can be separated from Q. * It is rarely a predominant tree, but it grows in association with many other species.

Oily and sweet tasting with a rich agreeable flavour. * The seed is eaten raw or ground into a powder and used with cereal flours in making cakes, biscuits, muffins, bread etc. * Compound leaves, dark green; 2" edible fruit, oily; furrowed dark gray bark;...

* 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.

It is native from Massachusetts to Delaware and west to Wisconsin and Arkansas. * It is naturally a wetland tree, and develops a shallow, fibrous root system, unlike many oaks , which have a strong, deep taproot when young.

* An ornamental and shade tree, it is also suitable for hedges, screens, and windbreaks. * Wood was once used by early settlers in the midwest for shingles, hence the common name. Specific epithet comes from Latin and means to place in an overlapping...

* 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 .

* Any galls produced on the tree are strongly astringent and can be used in the treatment of haemorrhages, chronic diarrhoea, dysentery etc. * A stately shade tree for the lawn, particularly in drier locations, with excellent fall color.

Rather thin-shelled, the seed is small and sweet. 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.

It is a component of the forest cover type White Oak-Black Oak-Northern Red Oak . * Chinkapin oak can be separated from Q. * It is rarely a predominant tree, but it grows in association with many other species.

* It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 20-47 m tall. * It has greenish yellow flowers in May and the dark green leaves turn yellow to pumpkin-orange in the fall. * A species of buckeye native to the Ohio Valley and Appalachian Mountains of the...

* This is a tall deciduous tree with heart-shaped up to 8" dark green leaves. When flowering, the trees are full of bees, hence the name Bee-tree; this species is favored by bees over others and produces a strongly flavored honey.

Very popular in America, the seed is sweet and well-flavoured with a thin shell. The seed ripens in mid to late autumn and will probably need to be protected from squirrels. It grows in dry woodlands and forest edges and can reach 4 – 8 m tall with...

* Any galls produced on the tree are strongly astringent and can be used in the treatment of haemorrhages, chronic diarrhoea, dysentery etc. * A stately shade tree for the lawn, particularly in drier locations, with excellent fall color.

* Natural stands of cork oak can support diverse ecosystems. Over time the cork cambium layer of bark can develop considerable thickness and can be harvested every 9 to 12 years to produce cork.

* Wyman says the kernals come out whole. They really are perfect hearts! * The fruit is a nut , produced in bunches of 4-10 together; the nut is spherical, 3-5 cm long and broad, surrounded by a green husk before maturity in mid autumn.

It is distinguished from most other oaks by its leaves , which are shaped like willow leaves, 5-12 cm long and 1-2.5 cm broad with an entire margin; they are bright green above, paler beneath, usually hairless but sometimes downy beneath.

* The fruit is readily eaten by birds. * Native Americans prepared decoctions of the inner bark for cough medicines and tea-like cold remedies. Serotina is also used for cooking and smoking foods, where it imparts a unique flavor.

Very popular in America, the seed is sweet and well-flavoured with a thin shell. The seed ripens in mid to late autumn and will probably need to be protected from squirrels. It grows in dry woodlands and forest edges and can reach 4 – 8 m tall with...

Leaves are non-compound, with 5 shallow lobes, the blade up to 10 cm long, with teeth along the edges. It is among the first to take on colour, usually creamy yellow but also orange at times, and has usually dropped its leaves by the time other trees...

* This is a tall deciduous tree with heart-shaped up to 8" dark green leaves. When flowering, the trees are full of bees, hence the name Bee-tree; this species is favored by bees over others and produces a strongly flavored honey.

* The very bold, decorative leaves and the attractive catkins produced in spring make it an excellent ornamental tree for planting in parks and large gardens. * The fruit is a nut , produced in bunches of 4-10 together; the nut is spherical, 3-5 cm long...

* Oglethorpe Oak is an endangered species mostly due to habitat loss. * 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 oak inhabits...

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

* Leaves to 6"; small flower clusters; young branches red; rounded fruit; native to southeast Europe and western Asia. * Tilia dasystyla is a deciduous lime tree species .

* Acorn cups are covered with a mossy scale or bur near the rim, hence the common names. * Among the white oaks, it is one of the most tolerant of urban conditions, and is one of the fastest-growing of the group.