Photo: Bruce Marlin — CC BY-SA 2.5 · source
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Survives zone 4 through 8
Acorns edible after leaching out bitter tannins; a white-oak-group acorn, comparatively sweet and easy to process.
- Hardiness
- Zone 4 to 8
- Habit
- Tree
- Edible part
- Fruit
- Ripens
- Sept–Oct
- Mature size
- Large tree — NOT containerable
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil pH
- Castanea 4.5–6.5 — ⚠ LIME-INTOLERANT (calcifuge, unlike other nut trees). Quercus/Fagus 5.0–6.5
- Environment
- Wetland
- Status
- Wild
- Years to fruit
- 3–5 yrs grafted
- Pollination
- Wind-pollinated, monoecious; masting