Northern red oak

Northern red oak Quercus rubra

Description

A large oak, Quercus rubra (syn Quercus borealis), native to North America, growing from Kansas northwards to Canada and from the Great Lakes west to the Pacific Ocean. The northern red oak produces a hard, strong timber that has a pale reddish brown color. It is used for furniture, flooring, veneers, shipbuilding, railroad ties, and interior trim.

Synonyms and Related Terms

Appalachian red oak; Quercus rubra; Quercus borealis; Rd-Eg (Dan.); Roteiche (Deut.); chne rouge d'Amrique (Fr.); Amerikaanse eik (Ned.); roble americano (Esp.); carvalho vermelho americano (Port.)

Northern red oak Quercus rubra

Other Properties

Tree grows to 35 m with straight trunk and round crown Bark=Gray-brown developing shiny vertical ridges with age. Leaves=oblong with 7 to 11 bristle-tipped lobes Fruit=round acrod with flat, thick cap, matures in two years in late summer

Density	44 pcf

Additional Images

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  Appalachian Red Oak (Quercus borealis)

Authority

• G.S.Brady, G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 555

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• External source or communication, External source or communication Comment: Hardwood Manufacturers Institute, Memphis Tenn.: air-dry weight = 44 pcf

• Website address 1, Website address 1 Comment: Virginia Tech Dendrology website at www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/main.htm (accessed Oct. 8, 2005)

• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_borealis (Accessed Oct. 8, 2005)