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Quercus velutina (Black oak)

Other names: American black oak, Dyer's oak, Quercitron, Yellow-barked oak

Q. velutina is a vigorous, spreading, deciduous tree with ridged, dark brown bark and elliptic to obovate, glossy, dark green leaves, brown-hairy beneath, with pointed, deep, bristle-tipped lobes, turning reddish-brown in autumn. Yellow-green flower catkins in spring are followed by ovoid to spherical acorns with cups that cover half of the acorn.
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18m max. spread

18m max. height

50-100 years to maturity

Quercus stellata (Post oak)

Other names: Iron oak, Rough white oak

Q. stellata is a rounded, deciduous tree with rough, often leathery, lobed, dark green leaves and insignificant, yellow-green flower catkins in spring as the leaves emerge. Flowers are followed by ovoid acorns with bowl-shaped cups.
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15m max. spread

15m max. height

50-100 years to maturity

Quercus muehlenbergii (Chinkapin oak)

Other names: Chestnut oak, Yellow chestnut oak

Q. muehlenbergii is a rounded, deciduous tree with scaly, grey bark and elliptic to obovate, glossy, triangularly lobed, pointed, dark green leaves, paler beneath, with curved teeth and turning yellow-brown in autumn. Insignificant, yellow-green flower catkins in mid-spring are followed by small, edible, ovoid acorns with scaly cups.
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18m max. spread

15m max. height

50-100 years to maturity

Quercus georgiana (Georgia oak)

Other names: Stone Mountain oak

Q. georgiana is a dense, spreading, deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub or tree with ovate to elliptic, glossy, dark green leaves deeply cut with two to five, pointed, bristle-tipped lobes. Leaves turn shades of red, orange, purple, and brown in autumn and persist on the tree until leaf buds swell in spring. Yellow-green flower catkins in spring are followed by spherical, brown acorns taking two years to mature.
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9m max. spread

9m max. height

50-100 years to maturity

Lithocarpus edulis (Japanese stone oak)

Other names: Pasania edulis , Quercus edulis, Quercus glabra, Quercus laevigata, Japanese tanbark oak, Japanese false oak

L. edulis is a rounded to broadly spreading evergreen tree with oblong, veined, glossy, leathery, dark green leaves and erect spikes of pale yellow-green flowers in spring are followed by orange-brown acorns.
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8m max. spread

10m max. height

20-50 years to maturity

Quercus cerris 'Argenteovariegata' (Turkey oak 'Argenteovariegata' )

Other names: Variegated turky oak, Quercus cerris 'Variegata', Iron oak 'Argenteovariegata' , Bitter oak 'Argenteovariegata' , Mossy-cupped 'Argenteovariegata' , Wainscot oak 'Argenteovariegata' , Manna oak 'Argenteovariegata'

'Argenteovariegata' is a variable, fast-growing, spreading, deciduous tree with plated, dark grey bark and oblong to lance-shaped, deeply lobed or toothed, dark green leaves with pale yellow margins, pale green beneath, turning yellow-brown in autumn. Clusters or catkins of inconspicuous, yellow-green flowers in spring are followed by acorns with bristly cups.
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25m max. spread

30m max. height

20-50 years to maturity

Quercus palustris 'Green Pillar' (Pin oak 'Green Pillar')

Other names: Swamp oak 'Green Pillar', Quercus palustris 'Pringreen'

'Green Pillar' is an upright, narrowly columnar, deciduous tree with glossy, mid- to dark green leaves divided into five, bristle-tipped lobes, the entire leaf turning scarlet to deep red in autumn. Insignificant catkins of tiny, green flowers in spring are followed by ovoid, brown fruit.
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5m max. spread

20m max. height

50 years to maturity

Quercus frainetto 'Hungarian Crown' (Hungarian oak 'Hungarian Crown')

'Hungarian Crown' is a fast-growing tree with a large, rounded crown. It has good autumn colour.
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12m max. spread

15m max. height

20-50 years to maturity

Quercus dentata 'Pinnatifida' (Daimio oak 'Pinnatifida')

Other names: Daimyo oak 'Pinnatifida', Japanese emperor oak 'Pinnatifida', Cutleaf Japanese emperor oak, Quercus daimo

'Pinnatifida' is a slow-growing, upright, deciduous tree with fissured bark and stout,open branches bearing ovate, deeply lobed, dark grey-green leaves turning dull yellow-orange in autumn and, in autumn, spherical acorns with fringed caps.
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10m max. spread

12m max. height

20-50 years to maturity

Quercus robur Fastigiata Group (Common oak Fastigiata Group)

Other names: Pedunculate oak Fastigiata Group, Polish oak Fastigiata Group, English oak Fastigiata Group, Black oak Fastigiata Group, French oak Fastigiata Group, Quercus robur f. fastigiata

Fastigiata Group are large, upright, deciduous trees bearing ovate to oblong, dark green leaves with rounded lobes and inconspicuous yellow-green catkins in spring followed by ovoid acorns.
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15m max. spread

15m max. height

20-50 years to maturity