The Trees of Texas 85 



Delaware, Florida, west to the Colorado River, Texas. 

 The wood is heavy, hard, close grained and strong. It is 

 used for fuel. 



24. Quercus Phellos L. Willow Oak. A forest tree 70- 

 80 high, with trunk diameter of 2 c -4. The branches are 

 small and form a rather narrow, open rounded crown. The 

 bark is thin, 1 /&'-%' thick, light reddish brown, smooth on 

 young branches, shallowly fissured on old trunks. Leaves 



Fig. 21. Quercus Phellos. 



linear oblong, ovate lanceolate or sometimes lanceolate-obo- 

 vate, acute at both ends often falcate, entire or undulate mar- 

 gin, 2 1 /'-5' long, %'-!' wide, borne on short petioles, thick, 

 smooth and shining above, paler and somewhat hairy beneath. 

 Acorns borne usually solitary, sessile or. very short-stalked; 

 nut sub globose or hemispherical, covered with pale pubescence, 



