Sessile oak

Family Fagaceae. Naturally occurs in the North Caucasus, in Northern Crimea, in the southern Baltic region, and in the western part of Ukraine. Present in many reserves of the Caucasus, Crimea, and the European part of Russia. Forms oak forests and grows together with other deciduous species, most often on fresh fertile soils. A light-loving mesophyte.

Tree up to 30 m tall, with a regular, ovoid crown in young plants, and a pyramidal-rounded one in old individuals. Trunk bark smooth, brownish-olive; in old specimens narrowly fissured, but with less deep fissures than in the pedunculate oak. Leaves up to 12 cm long, obovate, oblong, with 5-9 pairs of elongated, entire-margined or coarsely toothed lobes, longest in the middle part of the blade. Petiole up to 2.5 cm. Like the pedunculate oak, it is one of the principal species for creating large groups and stands in parks and park-forests. Good in small groups, avenues and solitary plantings. In growth rate it is the same as the pedunculate oak, but more light- and heat-loving, less demanding of the soil, drought-resistant and long-lived.

Recommended for the western and southwestern regions of Russia, the northern and northwestern Caucasus, for large groups and stands, solitary and avenue plantings. Long in cultivation.

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