Quercus palustris pin oak
size/type
tall tree,tall tree
usual height
15-20m
usual width
8-12m
leaves
deciduous broadleaf
colour of leaves
flowers
insignificant or non-blooming
location
full sun
USDA zone (lowest)
4 (down to -34°C)
winter protection
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
categorized
Oaks are common trees of our natural woodlands. They border our ponds, occur naturally in our mixed forests, and make magnificent specimen trees in our parks and arboretums where less common species or rare varieties can be seen.
Description of the plant:
Pin oak is a beautiful large tree you can see growing in moist or boggy places. It has beautiful leaves, deeply lobed. They are deciduous, glossy green in summer and orange, red and burgundy purple in autumn. Pin oak is one of the most attractively coloured trees in autumn in the wild.It grows quite fast for an oak and makes a unique crown shape. Lower branches are pendulous, middle branches horizontal, and upper branches upright and spreading. This will create a dense effect as the tree ages. The crown is pyramidal when young and oval when mature. It can pruned at the end of winter but is usually left to its own devices.
Pin oak likes moist or even boggy locations if it grows there from a seed. Plants with a root ball need to be planted the way that they do not sit directly in water. Later the root system can take long term flooding but it has to be well established first. Grow it in full sun, preferably in acid soil for best foliage colour. Newly planted trees need to be staked for 2-3 years to establish. Fully hardy to min. -34°C (USDA zone 4), perhaps a little more.
Last update 21-04-2010
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GLOSSARY
- STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
- DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
- EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
- STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
- HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
- SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
- HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
- FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
- GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.
