Wholesale
Nursery Stock Price List
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Quercus
Macrocarpa
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Bur
Oak or Burr Oak or Mossycup Oak |
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Our current inventory of Quercus Macrocarpa
(Bur Oak or Burr Oak or Mossycup Oak), is presented below by five (5) available
sizes along with their individual wholesale price (cost varies per size
and quantity).
Quercus
Macrocarpa
| also
known as: |
Bur
Oak
Burr Oak
Burl Oak |
Mossycup
Oak
Mossycup White
Oak |
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| 2.0"
(inches) |
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$
135.00 |
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2.5" (inches)
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$ 150.00
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3.0" (inches)
|
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$ 200.00
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3.5" (inches)
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$ 250.00
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4.0" (inches)
|
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$ 300.00
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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 Macrocarpa |
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The Quercus Macrocarpa is commonly known
as the Bur Oak or Burr Oak or Mossycup Oak and Mossycup White Oak.
It is the state tree of Iowa.
The Bur Oak is native to North America
in the eastern and midwestern United States and south-central Canada. It
occurs from the Appalachian Mountains west to the middle of the Great Plains,
extending to central Texas, across southernmost Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec,
east to the Atlantic Coast in southern New Brunswick, and down the coast
to Delaware.
The Bur Oak makes an outstanding ornamental
tree. It is one of the most tolerant of urban conditions of the white oaks,
and is one of the fastest-growing of the group. It has been planted in
many places such as Anchorage, Alaska and San Antonio, Texas. It withstands
chinook conditions at Calgary, Alberta.
The Bur Oak is a large deciduous tree growing
up to 80 to 90 feet tall (rarely to 100 feet), with a broad, rounded, open
crown of stout, crooked, spreading branches. This tree has the largest
acorns of all native oaks, sometimes to 2 inch diameter. The common name
describes the cup of the acorn, superficially resembling the spiny bur
of the chestnut.
The acorns are the largest of any North
American oak, and are an important wildlife food; American Black Bears
sometimes tear off branches to get them. However, heavy nut crops are borne
only every few years. In this strategy, known as masting, the large seed
crop every few years overwhelms the ability of seed predators to eat the
acorns, thus ensuring the survival of some seeds. Other wildlife, such
as deer and porcupine, eat the leaves, twigs and bark. Cattle are heavy
browsers in some areas. The bur oak is the only known food plant of Bucculatrix
recognita caterpillars.
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