Basisdaten
description:
The Sessile oak is found in Europe to the Middle East. The wood is used in construction (timber-framework) and for the production of wine barrels.
Tree profile
name botanical:
Quercus petraea
other name:
Cornish Oak
other name:
Durmast Oak
family:
Beech family (Fagaceae)
species:
deciduous tree
height:
up to 35 m (115 ft)
leaf:
The leaves of Sessile Oak are sinuate dark, olive green and up to 14 cm (5.5 in) long. The leaves sprout early. The leaf margin is smooth.
leaf shape:
sinuate
leaf margin:
smooth
fall foliage:
yellow
flowering:
April - May
blossom color:
green-yellowish
blossom description:
The flowers form greenish - yellow drooping catkins. Flowering and leafing sprout together..
gender distribution:
monoecious
fruit:
The acorns being enclosed to one third of the fruit cups.
branches:
The shoots are gray-brown tomentose. The buds are reddish brown, oval and pointed. Buds heaped at the end of the branches.
bark:
The bark is smooth and gray later deeply fissured.
root:
Deep-rooting plant
location:
Sun to half-shade
soil:
sandy to loamy to loamy strong, wet locations well tolerates
ph value:
acidic to alkaline
usage:
roadside green, single tree, planting in groups
Oaks additional information
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