Regional Champion Sawtooth Oak
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QuesterMark
N 32° 44.123 W 097° 22.071
14S E 652930 N 3623129
This Sawtooth Oak, located in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, was the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Champion in 2004.
Waymark Code: WM636P
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/24/2009
Views: 8
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The form of the Sawtooth Oak is a small to medium-sized tree that forms a dense pyramidal crown that rounds with age.
It grows to heights of 40 to 50 feet with crown spreads of 50 to 60 feet.This tree grows at a fast growth rate.
The LEAVES are alternate, simple, lanceolate in shape, 3 to 7 inches long, pinnately veined with a very sharply serrate margin bearing bristle-tipped teeth.
The FLOWERS - Male catkins are golden and pendant, appearing in the spring; female catkins are borne on spikes.
The FRUIT, one inch acorns, are quite popular with wildlife. Sawtooth Oak acorns are at the top of the food preference list for wood ducks, pheasants, grackles, jays, nuthatches, thrushes, woodpeckers, rabbits, deer, foxes and squirrels.
The TWIGS are quite slender, red to gray-brown in color with multiple terminal buds. BUDS are gray-brown, pubescent on the bud scale edges and somewhat pyramidal.
The BARK is ridged and furrowed even when young, later deeply ridged and furrowed and corky.
Corrected coordinates courtesy of txoilgas.
Genus/Species: Quercus acutissima
Height: 65
Girth: 8
Method of obtaining height: Reliable source
Method of obtaining girth: Reliable source
Location type: Other public property
Website reference: [Web Link]
Walk time: 6
Age: Not Listed
Historical significance: Not listed
Planter: Not listed
Parking coordinates: Not Listed
Photograpy coordinates: Not Listed
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