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Photographer: Michael Clayton
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Family Fagaceae
Quercus velutina Lam.
black oak
Quercus: Latin for oak
velutina: velvety
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial, deciduous tree to 80' tall; dark brown to black, deeply furrowed bark often with ridges broken into uneven blocks, inner bark yellow or orange |
| Flower: | oval to elliptic, terminal buds obviously 5-angled in cross section; blooms in spring |
| Fruit: | acorns biennial, cup- to turban-shaped cup covering 1/2 of the nut; nut roundish to oval |
| Leaf: | oval to obovate in outline on a long stalk, unequal base blunt to slightly pointed, edges with 5-9 deep lobes and 15-50 sharp points; underside pale green, upper side shiny, dark green |
| Habitat: | dry; slopes, uplands, sandy lowlands, terraces |
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