Arkansas Tree Database

Scientific name:

Quercus Macrocarpa

Size:

80' tall, up to 100' tall

Leaves:

alternate, simple, 6"-12" long, oblong, broadest above the middle, lobed, with terminal lobe largest, no bristles on tips

Flowers:

inconspicuous

Fruit:

large acorn enclosed by half or more in fringed mossy cup, largest acorn of any native oak; in the white oak group so maturing the first season on the current year's twig

Fall Interest:

yellow-brown; deciduous

Culture:

sun to partial sun; adaptable

Disease/Insect:

Use:

shade tree; wood for construction, tight cooperage, furniture, flooring, millwork

Cultivars:

Notes:

bark light gray to dark gray-brown and thick, with deep grooves and long flat-topped ridges; shoots often develop corky wings; also called mossycup oak; can live 300 years or more; in the white oak group; native to Arkansas