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Quercus robur saplings in pots in greenhouse (3.4507)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur saplings in pots in greenhouse
Extent: 1 photograph
Twelve Oaks (3.24795)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of leaf, acorn, and twigs with buds for twelve different types of oak, created to accompany "The Oaks Of The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings are divided into two categories and depicted in columns with descriptive text.
Header: TWELVE OAKS
Leaves, acorns, and twigs as depicted in two categories, from left to right, top to bottom:
Category 1: The Black Oak Group
- Eastern Red Oak - Quercus borealis
- leaf - dull above, glabrous beneath, lobes narrowing toward margin, sinuses about half-way to mid-rib.
- acorn - shallow cup, saucer-shaped, with glossy tight scales, white kernel
- twig with buds - buds red brown, not angled; twigs red-brown, smooth
- Northern Pin - Quercus ellipsoidalis
- leaf - lustrous, deeply lobed, lobes widening toward margin, base truncate or broad-cunate, 5 to 7 lobed
- acorn - top-shaped cup, enclosing half of nut, yellow kernel
- twig with buds - buds red-brown, obtuse at tip; twigs red-brown
- Black - Quercus velutina
- leaf - leathery, thick, petioles yellow, sinuses varying from shallow to deep
- acorn - bowl-like cup, scales form fringe at margin, yellow kernel
- twig with bids - buds pale woolly, strongly 5-sided; twigs red-brown, lenticels conspicuous
- Pin - Quercus palustris
- leaf - thin, lustrous, 5 to 7 lobed, few-toothed, slender petioles, base cuneate
- acorn - saucer-shaped cup, scales with free tips, nut often striped
- twigs with buds - side buds at wide angle; twigs red-brown, smooth
- Shingle - Quercus imbricaria
- leaf - lustrous above, pubescent below, persistent in Winter
- acorn - stalked cup, bowl-like, thin
- twig with buds - buds brown smooth; twigs smooth, gray-brown
- Willow - Quercus phellos
- leaf - lustrous, nearly sessile, acute at both ends
- acorn - talked cup, shallow, thin
- twig with buds - buds brown; twigs fine
- White - Quercus alba
- leaf - glabrous, with deep sinuses, often persistent in winter
- acorn - bowl-like cup, with thickened warty scales, nut edible
- twig with buds - buds red-brown, smooth; twigs red-brown, later ashy-gray; lenticels pale, conspicuous
- Bur - Quercus macrocarpa
- leaf - usually with "wasp-waist" - thick, smooth above, pale-pubescent beneath
- acorn - cup fringed, covering half or more of nut, larger in South
- twig with buds - buds pale-woolly, gray-tan; twigs gray, later corky-ridged
- English - Quercus robur
- leaf - auricled base, nearly sessile
- acorn - cup enclosing 1/4 to 1/3 of nut, long-stemmed
- twig with buds - buds, brown; side buds divergent; twigs brown
- Chinquapin - Quercus muehlenbergii
- leaf - thick, shiny above, pubescent beneath, somewhat sharply-toothed, rounded base, slender petiole
- acorn - cup bowl-shaped, thin, scales indistinct
- twig with buds - buds chestnut-brown; twigs orange-brown
- Basket - Quercus michauxii
- leaf - crenate margin, pale-pubescent beneath, cunate base, 10 to 14 pairs of teeth
- acorn - cup bowl-shaped, thickened, scales wedge-shaped
- twig with buds - buds chestnut-brown, twigs orange-brown
- Swamp White - Quercus bicolor
- leaf - thick, firm, coarsely-toothed, shining above, pale-fomentose beneath, 6 to 10 pairs of teeth, often persistent in winter
- acorn - usually paired, cup bowl-shaped, slightly-fringed, long-stalked
- twigs with buds - buds brown; twigs yellow-brown, with pale, raised lenticels
Extent: 1 sheet
Common European oak, Quercus robur and European white oak, Quercus pedunculata (3.26702)
Date: 1865Creator: Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840., Gabriel, engraver.
Type: Print
Description:Common European oak, Quercus robur and European white oak, Quercus pedunculata
Quercus robur: branch tip with four leaves and two acorns. Quercus pedunculata: branch tip with three leaves and two acorns.
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: English Oak (3.31801)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of an English Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of a fruit, a twig, and descriptive text.
Header: ENGLISH OAK
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: alternate
- fruit: not native
- tree: European
- twig with buds
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: English Oak 2 (3.31898)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of an english oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf.
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees of the Eastern Hemisphere That Can Be Grown Here (3.33822)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a cross-section of a hilly landscape with several types of trees. The trees are drawn in silhouette and a few houses are scattered in-between them. Each tree is also accompanied by a line of color across the top indicating the color of its leaves in Fall as well as an outline of its leaf below.
Header:
- TREES OF THE EASTERN HEMIPSHERE / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
- THESE FOREIGN TREES LACK THE DISPLAY / OF BRILLIANT FALL COLORING, THAT CHARACTER- / IZES OUR NATIVE SPECIES -------
- The color line about each of these trees indicates its / characteristic fall coloring -------
russian-olive -- [wych] Scots elm -- Norway spruce -- Scots pine -- Lombardy poplar -- [silver] white poplar -- European larch -- Japanese larch -- weeping willow -- European black alder -- camperdown elm -- European white birch -- English oak -- European linden (lime) -- Amur cherry -- Amur maple -- oriental crab -- oriental pear -- sycamore maple -- Serbian spruce -- Chinese juniper -- [Irish] common juniper -- horse-chestnut -- mountain-ash -- Nordmann's fir -- ginkgo -- [ailanthus] tree of heaven -- English ash
Extent: 1 sheet
Quercus robur (English Oak), bark, branch (3.46741)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J.G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English Oak), bark, branch
Quercus robur (English Oak), bark, trunk (3.46742)
Date: September 6 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J.G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English Oak), bark, trunk
Quercus robur (English Oak), leaf, lower surface (3.46743)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J.G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English Oak), leaf, lower surface
Quercus robur (English Oak), leaf, summer (3.46744)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J.G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English Oak), leaf, summer
1997/06/17: Jeffrey R. Short Jr. to Dr. Christopher Dunn (3.57412)
Date: June 17 1997Creator: Short Jr., Jeffrey R.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jeffrey R. Short, Jr. to Dr. Christopher Dunn providing his thoughts on the success or failure of various tree species received from the Morton Arboretum. Included with the letter are two completed Members' Cooperative Research Program evaluation forms from Jeffrey Short listing when the trees were purchased from the Arboretum and their current condition. Dr. George Ware is cc'd in the letter.
Extent: 3 sheets
Quercus robur (English oak), bud detail (3.57819)
Date: March 1966Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English oak), detail of several brown, scaly buds, two lateral and three clustered at the end of dark gray twig with lenticels
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus robur (English oak), seedling detail (3.57820)
Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English oak), detail of seedling showing several small green leaves with rounded lobes on short pale gray stem in round black plastic container
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus robur (English oak), potted seedlings (3.57821)
Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English oak), several rows of seedlings with pale gray stems and green leaves with rounded lobes growing in round black plastic containers and with white plastic plant markers set on metal rack near window
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus robur (English oak), potted seedlings (3.57822)
Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English oak), seedlings with pale gray stems and green leaves with rounded lobes growing in round black plastic containers and with white plastic plant markers set on metal rack near window
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus robur (English oak), potted seedlings (3.57823)
Creator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English oak), several rows of seedlings with pale gray stems and green leaves with rounded lobes growing in round black plastic containers and with white plastic plant markers set on metal rack near window
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus robur (English oak), habit, summer (3.57824)
Date: August 1951Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English oak), mature, broadly rounded with short trunk, covered with green leaves in open grassy area amongst trees
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus robur (English oak), bare tree (3.57825)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English oak), bare tree amongst other bare trees and rows of shrubs
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus robur (English oak), leaves and acorns detail (3.57826)
Date: August 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English oak), close up section of pale gray twig detailing several long green acorns with small cups and cluster of small green leaves and brown and yellow-green leaves, some with brown spots
Living Collections Accession Number: 521-54*1
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: C-104/70-85 (Oak Collection)
Extent: 1 slide
Quercus robur (English oak), habit, fall (3.57827)
Date: October 1963Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus robur (English oak), Floyd Swink standing in front of mature tree covered with green leaves and near road amongst trees showing color
Extent: 1 slide
