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Quercus taxonomy
Quercus michauxii Nutt.
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off-site colonizer; seed carried by animals or water; Postfire yr 1&2
survivor species; on-site surviving root crown
United States
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Acorns are low in protein but high in fat and nitrogen-free extract.
Percent nutrient values are given below.
Source [4]: Source [24]:
crude fat 3.3 crude fat 1.8
total protein 4.1 total protein 3.1
carbohydrates 56.1 N-free extract 58.9
phosphorus 0.12 crude fiber 12.9
calcium 0.08 water content 21.3
magnesium 0.06
Fagaceae -- Beech family
M. B. Edwards
Swamp chestnut oak (Quercus michauxii) is known also as basket oak, for the baskets made from its wood, and cow oak because cows eat the acorns. One of the important timber trees of the South, it grows on moist and wet loamy soils of bottom lands, along streams and borders of swamps in mixed hardwoods. The high quality wood is used in all kinds of construction and for implements. The acorns are sweet and serve as food to wildlife.
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This species is known to occur in association with the following cover types (as classified by the Society of American Foresters):
More info for the terms: hardwood, swamp
39 Black ash - American elm - red maple
44 Chestnut oak
53 White oak
57 Yellow-poplar
59 Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak
63 Cottonwood
64 Sassafras - persimmon
65 Pin oak - sweet gum
70 Longleaf pine
81 Loblolly pine
82 Loblolly pine - hardwood
88 Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
89 Live oak
91 Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
92 Sweetgum - willow oak
93 Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
94 Sycamore - sweetgum - American elm
95 Black willow
96 Overcup oak - water hickory
101 Baldcypress
102 Baldcypress - tupelo
103 Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
104 Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay
108 Red maple
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All oaks sprout from the stem when top-killed by fire. Sprouting vigor
decreases as the tree increases in size and age [32]. Seedlings can
initially develop an "S"-shaped crook in the shoot at the soil surface.
This protects dormant buds from the heat of flames, allowing them to
sprout following fire [31]. With repeated fires, stems become calloused
and harbor dormant buds within this tissue.
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Chestnut oak wood is cut and utilized as white oak lumber [49].
Quecus michauxii Nutt., swamp chestnut oak, grows along the Atlantic Coastal Plain from New Jersey south to north Florida, and west to east Texas; its range extends up the Mississippi River Valley to Illinois and Ohio.
It is a medium-size to large tree that grows up to over 100 feet tall, with a trunk to over 6 feet in diameter, and a thick, scaly, loose, light-gray bark. The leaves are deciduous, somewhat oval, and 4 to 9 inches long; they are short-pointed at the tip, tapering to rounded at the base, with numerous shallow lobes or rounded teeth along the edges, dark green, smooth above and softly hairy beneath. Leafstalks are 1 inch long. The acorns are large and usually produced singly or in clusters of 2 or 3. There are 85 acorns per pound.