BASKET OAK; Cow OAK (Quercus Michauxii, Nutt.). 60 

 to 100 feet. Handsome, tall tree, with compact, round head 

 of stiff ascending branches and stout twigs, dark green, hairy. 

 Bark scaly, silvery or ashy gray, with tinge of red. Wood 

 similar jn qualities and used as other white-oak lumber. 

 Leaves obovate, straight- veined, regularly and shallowly lobed 

 by undulating lines, into finger points; surface lustrous, dark 

 green; lining white, pubescent. Autumn color, crimson. 

 Flowers as in preceding species. Acorns paired, on short stem, 

 oval, pointed, brown, in shallow, scaly cup that is flat-bot- 

 tomed, lined with down. Kernel sweetest, most edible among 

 eastern species. Dist.: Swamps and flood plains, Delaware 

 to Florida; west to Illinois, Missouri, and Texas. Important 

 timber tree. Considered the southern form of the preceding 

 species. 



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