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Quercus velutina
Also called Yellow-barked Oak, Quercitron Oak, Yellow Oak, Yellow Bark Oak
Black oak (Quercus velutina) is a large eastern North American oak, a tree that can reach 20–25 m in the north and up to 42 m farther south. It is grown mainly for shade and timber, and it does best in well-drained, moist, loamy soils.
Quercus velutina (Latin 'velutina', "velvety") , the black oak, is a species of oak in the red oak group (Quercus sect. Lobatae), native and widespread in eastern and central North America. It is sometimes called the eastern black oak.
Quercus velutina was previously known as yellow oak due to the yellow pigment in its inner bark.
Black oak is found in all the coastal states from Maine to Texas, inland as far as Michigan, Ontario, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and eastern Texas.
The inner bark of the black oak contains a yellow-orange coloring from the pigment quercitron, which was historically exported to Europe and used as a textile dye. The species is also known as yellow oak.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Quercus velutina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
