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Cultivated Plants of The Morton Arboretum

DuPage Co., Lisle, IL 60532 USA

FAGACEAE TRUE

Quercus muehlenbergii Engelm.

(Chinkapin Oak)

Plant Accession: #570-78*8 seed

Source: From seeds wild collected by Connor B. Shaw in campground north of the Kankakee River under spont. plants 1/2 mile west of the Kankakee Co. line T22N, R10S, Sec. 36, Will County, Illinois, U.S.A.

Location: Fagaceae: L-14/05-60

Irregular shaped tree; 50' tall and 30' wide in good condition. DBH: 10 cm. Tree bark furrowed and gray-brown. This years growth smooth and green. Previous years growth smooth (with some texture) and gray-brown.

Marlene Hahn, Breane G. Budaitis

#IL-MOR-MH103

June 01, 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.