Quercus velutina

The Black oak is, perhaps confusingly, a red oak type from the Eastern USA with big, hard textured, deeply lobed foliage, dark green above and pale hairy beneath, often 30cm long, making a much bolder looking tree than the relatively common Red oak, Q. rubra. Reaching impressive sizes in the UK; up to 28m and enjoying warmer summers than we are traditionally used to, and particularly drought resistant, but not suited to shallow chalk soils. Potentially very good red autumn colour. A bright yellow dye, quercitron, has been extracted from the inner bark in its homelands.

£60.00