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Plant - summer Pioneer Park
Sue Smith | Leaves Lynx Creek
Sue Smith | Flowers Forest Trails
Doug McMillan | Acorns Willow Lake
Sue Smith | Bark Pioneer Park
Sue Smith | Bark Prescott area
Jeff Schalau | |
Origin: Native
General Description: Spring-deciduous. Often has a very upright growth habit, evergreen, spring-deciduous, lustrous green leaves. Slow growth.
Identification notes: Leaves mostly dark green on both sides, oblong, shiny, spines on margins. Lower leaf surface not strongly net-veined. Bark is black on mature trees. Shrub or a tree, but can reach a height of 40 feet or more; often has a very upright growth habit.
Height: 40 feet Width: 40 feet
Habitat Description: Chaparral, pinyon-juniper, oak woodlands and ponderosa pine woodlands.
Plant Communities: Interior Chaparral, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian
Elevation: 3000 - 8000 feet
Color: Yellowish-green Shape: Inconspicuous in elongated clusters
Tubular: N Flowering Period: Apr - May
Description: Tiny male and females flowers on the same plant. Males in long drooping catkins, yellowish-green. Females solitary or in short spikes in leaf axils, appearing with the leaves.
Leaf Color: Yellowish-green to dark green Type: Simple Shape: Round or oval Margin: Toothed Attachment: Alternate Hairs: Bottom of leaves
Description: Narrowly ovate to broadly lance shaped, thick, stiff and leathery, 1 to 3 inches long with a spiny tip and some spiny teeth on the margins. Shiny yellowish-green to dark green and smooth above, paler but smooth below with maybe a few hairs.
Color: Light brown Type: Acorn or acorn-like Description: Oblong acorn 1/2 to 3/4 inch long with lower third covered by a hairy, thick, scaly, bowl-shaped cup. Ripens in 1 season in early fall.
Bark Color: Gray to black Bark Texture (Mature): Rough Bark and Branch Description: Becoming quite thick and splitting into irregular furrows and scaly ridges with rectangular plates. Twigs are fuzzy and yellowish-brown. Trunk up to 2-1/2 feet in diameter.
Spines, thorns or prickles: Y |
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