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MOR Quercus stellata Wangenh. 174535
Cultivated Plants of The Morton Arboretum

DuPage Co., Lisle, IL 60532 USA

FAGACEAE

Quercus stellata Wangenh.

(Post Oak)

Plant Accession: #210-91*2 seed

Source: From seeds wild collected by Peter J. van der Linden in the Donnellson Unit of Shimek State Forest, Lee County, Iowa, U.S.A.

Location: Quercus: N-98/15-28

Irregular shaped 25 ft in height and 15 ft wide in good condition. Some holes in leaves. DBH: ~19cm. Trunk bark brown-gray. This year’s growth light green; previous year’s gray and smooth.

Marlene Hahn, Breane G. Budaitis, & Elsa M. Meza

#IL-MOR-MH95

May 05, 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.