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An individual instance of Quercus nigra (water oak)
Permanent unique identifier for this particular organism:
http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/vu/2-675
Notes:
This tree, located between the Owen and Law Schools, is a large example of water oak. Water oaks are not native to middle Tennessee, although they are found in the southern Cumberland Plateau and in west Tennessee. We don't know much about the history of this particular tree, but it is located near the old Mechanical Engineering building, one of the most historic buildings on campus. To learn more about it, go to the tree's history page.
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Use this stable URL to link to this page:
http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/vu/2-675.htm
This organism is a living specimen that is part of the Vanderbilt University Arboretum with the local identifier 2-675.
This particular organism is believed to have managed means of establishment.
This organismal entity has the scope: multicellular organism.
Identifications:
Quercus nigra
L.
sec. fna.org 1993
common name: water oak
family: Fagaceae
Identified 2020-03-24 by Steven J. Baskauf
Location:
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, US
Click on these geocoordinates to load a map showing the location: 36.147525°, -86.800117°
Coordinate uncertainty about: 10 m.
Location determined from Google maps.
Occurrences were recorded for this particular organism on the following dates:
2020-03-12
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