Quercus alba Sinclair Adam the Southern forester and botanist

the Southern forester and botanist who did so much early work on the region's flora

or full sun with mulch and steady water

slightly weeping stems

each cradled in a prickled husk

Quercus alba Sinclair Adam the Southern forester and botanistQuercus alba, the white oak, is the grandfather of the eastern forest, a slow, massive, long lived tree that can stand for centuries and outlast the people who plant them. The most famous of all was the Wye Oak of Wye Mills, Maryland, a single white oak that stood for more than four hundred and sixty years and served as Maryland's state tree until a storm brought the giant down in 2002. The broad, rounded crown, the pale, scaly, ash gray bark, and the