Wholesale
Nursery Stock Price List
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Quercus
Alba
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White
Oak |
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Our current inventory of Quercus Alba
(White Oak), is presented below by four (4) available sizes along with
their individual wholesale price (cost varies per size and quantity).
Quercus
Alba (White Oak)
Zone 3 |
| 2.0"
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$
120.00 |
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2.5" (inches)
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$ 170.00
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3.0" (inches)
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$ 195.00
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4.0" (inches)
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$ 255.00
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The
Gerdes Fact Sheet
Scientific
Classification
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Kingdom...:
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Plantae |
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Division...:
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Magnoliophyta |
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Class...:
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Magnoliopsida |
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Order...:
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Fagales |
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Family...:
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Fagaceae |
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Genus...:
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Quercus |
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Section...:
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Quercus |
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Species...:
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Quercus Alba |
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The Quercus Alba is commonly known as
the White Oak and it is the official state tree of Illinois, Connecticut
and Maryland.
The White Oak is long-lived and is native
to eastern North America, from southern Quebec west to eastern Minnesota,
and south to northern Florida and eastern Texas. Specimens are known to
have lived over 600 years.
Although called the White Oak, it is very
unusual to find an individual with white bark; the usual color is an ashen
gray. In the forest it reaches a magnificent height. In the open it develops
into a massive broad-topped tree with great limbs striking out at wide
angles.
Normally not a very tall tree, typically
65 to 85 feet tall at maturity, it nonetheless becomes quite massive and
its lower branches are apt to reach far out laterally parallel to the ground.
The tallest known white oak is 144 feet tall. It is not unusual for a White
Oak to be as wide as it is tall. Conversely, specimens at high altitude
may only be small shrubs.
In spring the young leaves are exquisite
in their delicate silvery pink, covered with soft down as with a blanket.
The petioles are short, and the leaves which cluster close to the ends
of the shoots are pale green and downy with the result that the entire
tree has a misty, frosty look which is very beautiful. This lovely vision
continues for several days passing through the opalescent changes of soft
pink, silvery white and finally yellow green.
The leaves grow to 5 to 8.5 inches long
and 2.75 to 4.5 inches broad, with a deep glossy green upper surface turning
reddish brown in autumn; some brown leaves may remain on the tree throughout
winter until very early spring. They are variably lobed; sometimes the
lobes are shallow, extending less than half-way to the midrib, but sometimes
they are deeply lobed, with the lobes somewhat branching.
The acorns are usually sessile, and grow
to 0.5 to 1 inch long, falling in early October. The acorns are much
less bitter than the acorns of red oaks. They are small relative to most
oaks, but are a valuable wildlife food, notably for turkeys, wood ducks,
pheasants, grackles, jays, nuthatches, thrushes, woodpeckers, rabbits,
squirrels and deer. They were also used by Native Americans as a food.
The white oak is the only known food plant of Bucculatrix luteella and
Bucculatrix ochrisuffusa caterpillars.
The White Oak is fairly tolerant of a variety
of habitats, and may be found on ridges, in valleys, and in between, and
in dry and moist habitats, and in moderately acid and alkaline soils. It
is mainly a lowland tree, but reaches altitudes of 5,249 feet in the Appalachian
Mountains.
The White Oak makes an outstanding shade
tree, with an exceptionally wide spread and almost never dropping limbs.
However, it does not tolerate urban conditions well, due to an intolerance
of soil compaction and changes in soil levels. It may thrive in residential
neighborhoods where protected from such change.
The USS Constitution is made from White
Oak, and reconstructive wood replacement comes from a special grove of
Quercus Alba known as "Constitution Grove".
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