Title: Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 11
Identifier: bulletinpennsylv11pennx (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Forestry
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : The Department : WM. Stanley Ray, state printer of Pennsylvania
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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lU SCRUB CHESTNUT OAK Quercus prinoides, Willdenow FORM^Usually a low shrub from 2-8 ft. high, but may attain a height of 18 ft. with a diameter of 4 inches. Usually occurs in clumps but may occur solitary. BASK—Thin, bitter, light brown, marked with light gray blotches, at flrst smooth, but later when trunk reaches a diameter of 4 inches it becomes rough. TWIGS—Smooth, slender, at first dark green and rusty-pubescent but later reddish-brown and smooth, marked with rather inconspicuous pale lenticels. BVDS—Alternate, ovate, rounded at apex, light brown, covered with thin overlapping scales which are sometimes hairy on margin. LEAVES—Alternate, simple, obovate, 3-6 inches long, 2-3 inches wide, covered beneath with pale tomentum, short and stout-petioled, margined with 8-7 rounded teeth on each margin and terminated with acute or acuminate apex. LEAF-SCABS—See "Leaf-Scars" under "White Oak, page 188. FLOWERS—Appear about May when leaves are about i developed. Slamlnate aments lj-2i inches long, yellow and somewhat hairy. Pistillate flowers are short-stelked and bear bright red pistils. FRUIT—An acorn, maturing at end of flrst season; M of an inch long, sessile or short- stalked, often produced In great abundance, singly or in pairs. Nut oval, light chertnut-brown; when young striated with dark longitudinal lines; blunt-pointed, shiny except at apex where It is often covered with pale down. Kernel sweet and edible. Cup thin, rather deep, covers about 4 of nut, pale woolly outside, downy Inside. Scales are indistinct, thinner towards apex, often knobby or tumid towards base. WOOD—Ring porous; with conspicuous medullary rays, of small size. Locally used for fuel. DISTINOUISHINa CHARACTERISTICS—The Scrub Chestnut Oak, also known as Dwarf Chin- quapin Oak, Chinquapin Oak and Scrub Oak, can readily be distinguished from most of the Oaks of Pennsylvania by its dwarf forms. It resembles the Bear Scrub Oak rather closely but can be distinguislied from it by its round-lobed leaves, knobby acorn-scales, scaly and often gray- blotched bark on larger stems, and sweet kernel of the acorns. The young branches of this species are pubescent while tliose of the Scrub Oak are usually smooth. The buds are small and not ao sharp pointed as those of the Chestnut Oak and the Yellow Oak. RANGE—Maine to North Carolina, west to Kansas and Texas. DISTRIBTJTION IN PENNSYLVANIA—Found locally In the eastern, northeastern, southern, and central parts of the State. Also reported from Allegheny county. Common near Milford, Pike county. HABITAT—Prefers dry woods, rocky slopes or sandy soils. Occasionally found In hillside pastures and moist woods. IBCPORTANCE OF THE SPECIES—The Stenib Chestnut Oak is so small In size that It has practically no commercial value. It is hardly more than a forest weed and should not be planted or protected except where it might be used as an advance growth. Commerically not important on account
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