Bark – young bark is smooth, older bark has flat topped ridges with shallow fissures; inner bark is light red. The northern red oak (Quercus rubra) is a medium sized tree that grows up to 90 feet, is ...

The August loss of a beloved old tree—a giant red oak, Quercus rubra, near Tyler Annex on College Lane—prompted Michael Marcotrigiano, director of the botanic garden and professor of biological ...

Fortunately, the genus Quercus can handle that too. Black oak grows 50-60 feet tall and wide and is hardy in Zones 3-9. While it grows slower than the similar-looking red oak (Quercus rubra), it ...

The white oak (Quercus alba) is a perennial tree of the Fagaceae family that best grows on rich ... The leaves of the white oak turn shades of red or burgundy in the fall and the dead leaves are often ...

Q. We visited a friend’s house in San Antonio and his neighbor had two trees that had beautiful red foliage. They were large ...

Scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea) grows best in full sun, reaching 50-70 feet tall, and blazes with red foliage in fall in horticultural zones 5-9. Red oak (Quercus rubra) has similar attributes ...