The american red oak (Quercus titles) is a tree from the kind of the oaks, resident in the east of North America. It becomes years old up to 180, is however sensitive to frosts. In Central Europe here the not domestic american red oaks are cultivated as park and avenue trees and used in some areas also forest-economically.

Beginning 20. Century the american red oak was cultivated as replacement for the native kinds of oak, which were very much dezimiert by eating damage. The american red oak is more resistant to parasits. It is cultivated as pure existence or in mixing planting with beeches and grows on well basen supplied soils, but badly on nutrient arms sandy soils.

Characteristics

The american red oak becomes usually 20-25 m, every now and then in addition, to 50 m highly and trains a round crown. Their sheets are long up to 23 cm and point jederseits sieve to eleven bays up, whose ends approach pointedly. They are green in the summer and become strongly bright red in the autumn to orange. The blooms hang loosely down and are yellowish green. The acorns are located in flat, surrounding their attractive Blattform and very remarkable autumn colouring them popular as Parkbaum made. In the urban climate it is just as successful as the pedunculate oak. It is not suitable as road or a place tree, since their roots raise bitumen and tilings with consolidated soils.

She is planted also in strips in forest-fire-endangered forest stands. As is the case for all stranger plant types (Neophyten) bringing into the ecological system should not be made heedlessly and wide.

Literature

• Kurt Egon car farmhand: The american red oak and its wood. German farmer publishing house, Berlin (GDR) 1955
• Franz farmer: The american red oak. Sour countries, Frankfurt/Main 1953

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