This large deciduous tree has a greyish trunk with radiating branches that form a broad conical habit. It has bright green deeply lobed leaves that turn crimson in autumn and produces slender pendant tassel-like male flowers in spring followed by acorns.

Hardiness zones 3 to 10

Quercus palustrisis naturally found in North America from south-east Canada to Connecticut, eastern Kansas and Georgia and extending to Oklahoma. It grows along rivers that may be inundated for short periods, inland and on the coast from sea-level to an altitude of 350 m (1,150 ft).

It prefers amoderately fertile well-drained moist to wet soil that is tending acidic in an open sunny to partially shaded position and is frost and drought tolerant.

The Pin Oak is grown for its foliage autumn colour and its spreading crown. It is planted in parks and large gardens as a lawn specimen for shade or used in avenue plantings. It is suitable for low-mountain or inland regions establishing in 3-5 years and is long livedup to 120 years.

This hardly quick growing tree has the advantage of allowing light to understorey plants and is grown extensively in the cooler states of Australia and Argentina producing shallow fibrous roots, unlike the tap roots of many other oaks and dislikes limestone-based soils. ID 352

Quercus (KWER-kus) palustris (pa-LUS-tris)

'Quercus': from Celtic quer + cuez - fine tree; 'palustris': of the marshes.

Fagaceae (fag-AY-see-e)
Beech, Oaks and Sweet Chestnuts