Lithocarpus pachyphyllus seed
LATIN NAME: Lithocarpus pachyphyllus
COMMON NAME: Thick-leaf Tanoak
The thick-leaf tanoak is the quiet, tough oak of the warm hillsides. The tall, evergreen tree carries the thick, leathery, dark-green leaves with the pale undersides and the small, upright catkins and the acorn-like fruits, and the whole tree keeps its fine, dense, rounded outline through the year. The hard, close-grained wood is put to the fires, the tools and the small works of the countryside, and the acorns have their own old record as a food of the hills. It is a tree of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The thick-leaf tanoak is a quiet, long-lived subject of the plant science, studied for the leathery leaves and the acorn-like fruits. The way the tree grows on the poor, dry hillsides has been studied at length, and it keeps showing up in the work on the evergreen oaks, the acorn-bearing trees and the members of the beech family. The fine, dense, rounded outline and the tall habit have also made it a fine garden tree, and the thick-leaf tanoak is a regular subject of the studies of the warm-climate oaks.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The thick-leaf tanoak is a fine, tough tree of the warm hillsides, with a long list of quiet uses. The hard, close-grained wood is cut for the fires, the tools and the small works of the countryside, and the acorns have their own old record as a food of the hills, leached and ground in the old ways. The tree is also a fine, evergreen presence of the large garden and the hillside planting, keeping its dense, rounded outline through the year. It has been written about in the botanical and the forestry papers for the tough ways and the old uses of the acorns, and it is a fine, long-lived tree of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.
The thick-leaf tanoak is one of the quiet, tough oaks of the warm hillsides, and the hard, close-grained wood is cut for the fires, the tools and the small works of the countryside. The acorns have their own old record as a food of the hills, leached and ground in the old ways.
To grow the thick-leaf tanoak from seed, sow the acorn-like seeds as soon as they ripen, a centimetre deep in pots of moist, free-draining soil, keep the pots in a bright, open spot and water gently. The seedlings are up within a few weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun and the well-drained ground, the dense, evergreen outline will rise through the years.