Wholesale
Nursery Stock Price List
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Quercus
Rubra
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Red
Oak or Northern Red Oak or Champion Oak |
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Our current inventory of Quercus Rubra
(Red Oak or Northern Red Oak or Champion Oak), is presented below by five
(5) available sizes along with their individual wholesale price (cost varies
per size and quantity).
Quercus
Rubra
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known as: |
Red
Oak
Northern Red
Oak
Champion Oak |
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Zone 4, bright red fall color |
| 2.0"
(inches) |
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$
130.00 |
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2.5" (inches)
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$ 170.00
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3.0" (inches)
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$ 200.00
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3.5" (inches)
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$ 240.00
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4.0" (inches)
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$ 275.00
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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 Rubra |
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The Quercus Rubra is commonly known as
the Red Oak or Northern Red Oak or Champion Oak. It is the state
tree of New Jersey and Iowa.
The Northern Red Oak is a native of North
America, in the northeastern United States and southeast Canada. It grows
from the north end of the Great Lakes, east to Nova Scotia, south as far
as Georgia and states with good soil that is slightly acidic.
In forests, the Northern Red Oak grows
straight and tall, to 115 feet, exceptionally to 141 feet tall, with a
trunk of up to 3 feet diameter; open-grown trees do not get so tall, but
can develop a stouter trunk, up to 6.6 feet in diameter. Has stout branches
growing at right angles to the stem, forming a narrow round-topped head.
It grows rapidly and is tolerant of many soils and varied situations although
prefers the glacial drift and well-drained borders of streams.
The Northern Red Oak is easy to recognize
by its bark, which features bark ridges that appear to have shiny stripes
down the center. A few other oaks have bark with this kind of appearance
in the upper tree, but the northern red oak is the only tree with the striping
all the way down the trunk.
The Northern Red Oak is one of the most
important oaks for timber production in North America. The wood is of high
value. Other related oaks are also cut and marketed as Red Oak, although
their wood is not always of as high a quality. The Northern Red Oak's wood
grain is so open that smoke can be blown through it from end-grain to end-grain
on a flat sawn board.
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