OAK * QUERCUS

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• Deciduous or evergreen (depending on variety), oaks are ornamental trees grown chiefly for their handsome foliage and interesting habit. Many species are important timber trees.
  
• Often stately, tall trees of noble and majestic habit with massive trunk and stout spreading limbs.
   
• The deciduous species are most hardy North. Of the evergreens, none seems to be hardy farther north than Washington, D.C.
   
• Oaks rank among our most valuable park and avenue trees.
  
• Over 200 known species are distributed through the colder and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere and in the mountains of the tropics.
   
• Varieties grow from 50 to 150 ft.