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Article: The popular pin oak. (In Profile).
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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The native pin oak (Quercus palustris) suffers a bit from overexposure, much like an actor when he or she becomes a star and reaches celebrity status. People will either love you or hate you, but there are few emotions in between.
The pin oak's overexposure comes because, for cities and landscape contractors across a large part of the United States, it offers a number of advantages as a street tree. They've overused this hardwood, but for some very good reasons: Unlike many trees, pin oaks like clay soil and don't mind wet feet, two conditions not enjoyed by many other trees. The tree's shallow and fiberous root system makes it easy to plant and transplant, and ...