TURKEY OAK (Quercus Catesban, Michx.). 20 to 30 feet, 

 rarely 60 feet. Round-topped tree of stout, angular branches, 

 often shrubby. Bark dark gray, with reddish under layers, 

 broken into scaly plates. Wood reddish brown, close-grained, 

 heavy, used for fuel. Leaves oblong, or triangular, deeply 

 cleft by wide, rounded sinuses, into 3 to 7 elongated, sickle- 

 shaped, bristly-pointed lobes; thick, stiff, yellow-green, shin- 

 ing, paler beneath, with tufts of hairs in angles of veins. 

 Length and breadth about 5 inches, average. Acorns oval, 

 about 1 inch long, brown, with white tomentum at apex, set 

 in shallow, turbinated, thin cup. Dist.: Dry, sandy ridges 

 North Carolina to Florida; west to Louisiana. 



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