Shingle Oak Trees and fall color

and fall color

This cultivar diverges from the Hedge Maple with its more upright branching habits

compact semi-dwarf makes a great low-maintenance city shade tree because of its fast and tidy growth

and improved adaptability and vigorous growth habits

It has an upright

Shingle Oak Trees and fall colorThe Shingle Oak (Quercus imbricaria) is a large sized shade tree. Its form is more pyramidal when young but matures to have a symmetrical canopy with a conical rounded crown, upright upper branches, and wide spreading, sometimes drooping lower branches. Its foliage is glossy dark green and paler on the undersides with inconsistent fall color but sometimes turning handsome shades of yellow brown to red brown. These leaves can make it hard to