Quercus margaretta Vilmorin and flowers on the current

and flowers on the current season's growth

Brazil and the neighboring countries

or a handsome specimen where the arching

Older nursery copy that files the plant simply as Chinese sells the truth short

and poor soil hold no terror for a plant this tough

Quercus margaretta Vilmorin and flowers on the currentThis oak is named for a woman the botanist married. William Willard Ashe, the tireless North Carolina forester who described hundreds of southern trees, set the species down as Quercus margaretta in honor of Margaret Henry Wilcox, whom he would wed in 1905; few oaks carry so personal a dedication. In plain terms, this is the sandhill cousin of the post oak, a smaller, finer boned version of Quercus stellata that trades the bottomland clay for dry,