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• n  fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil
• n  large nearly semi-evergreen oak of southeastern United States; thrives in damp soil

• swamp oak
• Quercus palustris
• laurel oak
• Quercus laurifolia

News & Articles

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• Master Gardener: Heat-loving disease can kill oak trees
  Q: I have a huge pin oak tree that has large sections of bark peeling away from the trunk. Some of the tree's top is not leafing out. What is this? Ron, TulsaA:
  June 15, 2013 - Tulsa World
• This one’s for Doug
  Shutts family plants pin oak in Central Park to honor husband, dad and granddad – and a master gardener By DANN HAYES dhayes1@dmreg.com The location the family picked was just the place where Doug Shutts would have liked – the south edge of Central Park in Grinnell. The family of Shutts, who passed away on [...]
  June 11, 2013 - Poweshiek County Chronicle Republican