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tanbark oak

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Noun1.tanbark oak - evergreen tree of the Pacific coast area having large leathery leaves; yields tanbark
Lithocarpus glaber, Lithocarpus glabra, Japanese oak - small evergreen tree of China and Japan
tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms


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Other trees that bear consideration for their vertical yet controllable growth include: tanbark oak (Lithocarpus densiflorus), primrose tree (Lagunaria patersonii), Catalina ironwood (Lyonothamnus floribundus), lilac melaleuca (Melaleuca decussata), granite bottlebrush (Melaleuca elliptica) and male ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba), since the female produces messy and malodorous fruit.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Back in America, Quercus prinus was better known as mountain or rock oak, after its preferred habitat; tanbark oak after its preferred use; and nowadays, chestnut oak after the shape of its leaves.
Its two major victims have been the tanbark oak (Lithocarpusdensiflorus), an attractive medium-size tree and - more ominously for our area - the coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia).
 
 
 
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