Quercus phellos Very Rare the Chilean myrtle builds with

the Chilean myrtle builds with age into a large multi-stemmed shrub or small tree of twenty feet and more

and freely produced against the dark leaves in early spring

The Japanese name says it well: sasaba means bamboo leaf

the sourwood

generous fall of rose-purple pea flowers carried in racemes six to eight inches long

Quercus phellos Very Rare the Chilean myrtle builds withThe first surprise of Quercus phellos is that nobody believes they're an oak. The leaves are narrow and untoothed, willow like, finer than an oak has any right to be, and they turn soft yellow before they fall; only the acorns, small and round and produced by the thousand, give the game away. There is a small joke folded into the name, too. Phellos is the old Greek word for the cork oak, so Linnaeus reached for the name of one tree to christen another