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FAGACEAE

Quercus shumardii Buckley

(Shumard's Oak)

Plant Accession: #515-2001*2 seed

Source: Mt. Cuba Center for the Study of Piedmont Flora; wild collected by Rick Lewandowski and Kris Bachtell, The Morton Arboretum (No. KB-004) on 02 Oct 2001, along the west side of Kentucky Route 27 just north of the town of Hall, Jessamine County, Kentucky, U.S.A.

Location: Appalachia: BB-76/85-66

Irregular shaped tree, 7' high and 2'6" wide in fair condition. Trunk bark smooth and gray-brown. This year's growth green and smooth; previous year's growth gray-brown and smooth. Some dead branches; small sized tree.

Marlene Hahn, Breane G. Budaitis, Becky Ventura, Donna J Wetta

#IL-MOR-MH83

August 02, 2012

Phylogeny of the New World oaks: Diversification of an ecologically important clade

across the tropical-temperate divide. (2012-2015 NSF Grant, DEB 114648

Photographer: Albrecht, William. Publisher: Albrecht, William.

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MOR
Taxonomic name: 
Quercus shumardii Buckley (Quercus taxonomy)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith