

SPANISH OAK (Quercus digitata, Sudw.). 70 to 80 feet. 

 Round-headed, open tree, with stout branches, coated with 

 orange, clammy tomentum, like the young leaves. Bark 

 brown, cleft into broad, scaly ridges; branches ashy or brown. 

 Wood hard, light red, coarse, strong, used locally in building 

 and for fuel. Leaves oblong or obovate, often with no lobes 

 at all; normally cut by deep, wide, rounded sinuses into 3 to 

 7 narrow, long, often curved rarely toothed lobes; thin, flex- 

 ible, firm, lustrous, dark green above, pale or rusty pubescent 

 helow; petioles slender, flat, drooping. Acorns rounded at 

 top and base, \ inch long, orange-brown, set for \ of length 

 in thin, saucer-shaped, flat-bottomed cup. Dist.: Dry, up- 

 'and ridges and swampy land, southern New Jersey to central 

 Florida; west to Missouri and Texas. 



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