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An individual instance of Quercus alba (white oak)
Permanent unique identifier for this particular organism:
http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt/15-139
Notes:
This tree stands in front of the Peabody library along the Esplanade, south of the walkway that leads to the library's front doot.
White oak leaves are fairly easy to recognize because of their large, rounded lobes. Their acorns have caps with a pebbly surface. The bark of large white oak trees is distinctive, with a grayish color and long, rounded, loose plates.
White oak is common in the wild in middle Tennessee. It is a commonly planted oak on Vanderbilt campus Its leaves and acorn are symbols of the university.
White oak leaves are fairly easy to recognize because of their large, rounded lobes. Their acorns have caps with a pebbly surface. The bark of large white oak trees is distinctive, with a grayish color and long, rounded, loose plates.
White oak is common in the wild in middle Tennessee. It is a commonly planted oak on Vanderbilt campus Its leaves and acorn are symbols of the university.
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This organism is a living specimen that is part of the Vanderbilt University Arboretum with the local identifier 1-38.
This particular organism is believed to have managed means of establishment.
This organismal entity has the scope: multicellular organism.
Identifications:
Quercus alba
L.
sec. fna.org 1993
common name: white oak
family: Fagaceae
Identified 2014-09-11 by Steven J. Baskauf
Location:
east of the Peabody library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, US
Click on these geocoordinates to load a map showing the location: 36.14233°, -86.79895°
Coordinate uncertainty about: 10 m.
Location of individual determined from GIS database.
Occurrences were recorded for this particular organism on the following dates:
2014-09-11
2019-09-18
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whole tree (or vine) - general |
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whole tree (or vine) - view up trunk |
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