Quercus alba Sinclair Adam The likeness is only skin-deep

The likeness is only skin-deep

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

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Quercus alba Sinclair Adam The likeness is only skin-deepQuercus 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