CATTON ARBORETUM

Quercus rubra Sunshine

Common name: Golden Red Oak

Year planted: 2015

Country of origin: US Nova Scotia to Georgia

Year introduced: Brought to Europe in 1724

Description: A large tree with Silver Grey smooth bark. Large leaves can be up to 22 cm long. The species is fast growing and used for timber as well as being an ornamental tree. Acorns are egg shaped and held in broad flat cups. Sunshine is an aurea type cultivar, first cultivated in Holland in 1878. It will be a smaller tree than the species type and has butter yellow foliage in the spring which gradually turns green

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Tree number: 87
Quercus rubra Sunshine (Golden Red Oak)