PIN OAK (Quercus palustris, Linn.) 50 to 120 feet high. 

 Graceful, pyramidal tree, becoming irregular, with slender, 

 horizontal branches, and abundant spur-like twigs, the 

 "pins" in this oak's name. Buds small, pointed. Bark gray- 

 brown, scaly; twigs red, fuzzy. Wood hard, tough, heavy, 

 brown, coarse-grained. Leaves 4 to 5 inches long, deeply 5- to 

 7-lobed, with wide, deep sinuses, shining above, dull and paler 

 beneath, turning red in autumn; petioles flexible. Flowers 

 May, on new shoots: staminate in clustered catkins; pistillate 

 paired, on short stalks. Acorns streaked, shorter than broad, 

 in saucers of close, red scales; kernel white, bitter, mature 

 second autumn. Dist.: Low, moist soil, Massachusetts to 

 Delaware; west to Wisconsin and Arkansas. 



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