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Quercus shumardii - large deciduous red oak of southern and eastern United States having large seven-lobed to nine-lobed elliptical leaves, large acorns and medium hard coarse-grained wood

red oak - any of numerous American oaks having 4 stamens in each floret, acorns requiring two years to mature and leaf veins usually extending beyond the leaf margin to form points or bristles

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We placed 1 g of leaves from Shumard red oaks (Quercus shumardii) in 50 ml of distilled water and then into indirect sunlight for 4 months to approximate natural conditions where water in ephemeral pools becomes tannic.

Land snails in ephemeral pools at Ottine Swamp, Gonzales County, Texas

Further complication may be added for researchers unfamiliar with Shumard oak (Quercus shumardii Buckl.), a species that reaches the northern end of its range in southeastern Michigan.

The distribution of Quercus rubra in the Maumee Lake Plain of Southeastern Michigan

13 18 29 pungens 2003 Scarlet Quercus coccinea 2007 252 119 120 Shingle Quercus imbricaria 1989 219 105 62 Shumard Quercus shumardii var.

The National Register of Big Trees 2008

Three of these species have been designated select red oaks because of the quality of their wood and the large volumes that are available [5]: cherrybark oak (Quercus pagoda), northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.), and shumard oak (Quercus shumardii Buck L.).

TENSION PARALLEL TO GRAIN, PURE FLEXURAL STIFFNESS, AND MODULUS OF RIGIDITY OF CLEAR WOOD OF SEVEN EASTERN RED OAKS

For example, Smith and Follmer (1972) found that gray and fox squirrels preferred black walnut and shagbark hickory nut meats over acorn nut meats and Quercus shumardii (BO) and Q.

The Evolutionary Ecology of Nut Dispersal

The principal species of red oak are Quercus rubra and Quercus falcata, but Quercus velutina, known as black oak, and Quercus shumardii, known as Shumard oak, are among the related species.

Red Oak Plentiful and Popular for Furniture

Common persimmon Diospyros virginiana Green ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica Honey locust Gleditsia triacanthos Black walnut Juglans nigra Eastern red cedar Juniperus virginiana Bois d'arc Maclura pomifera Red mulberry Morus rubra American sycamore Platanus occidentalis Eastern cottonwood Populus deltoides Bur oak Quercus macrocarpa Shumard oak Quercus shumardii Black willow Salix nigra Eve's necklace Sophora affinis Winged elm Ulmus alata American elm Ulmus americana Cedar elm Ulmus crassifolia Slippery elm Ulmus rubra Table 2.

A phytosociological description of a remnant bottomland hardwood forest in Denton County, Texas

Acorns of Shumard oaks (Quercus shumardii) were obtained from Louisiana Forest Seed Company, Inc.

Intake of mast by wildlife in Texas and the potential for competition with wild boars