Quercus chapmanii Burkwood & Skipwith carrying the sweet

carrying the sweet

The name longicarpa means long-fruited

some eight to ten inches long

and marriage since antiquity

this is a classic climber for a big

Quercus chapmanii Burkwood & Skipwith carrying the sweetThis oak is named for a doctor who loved plants more than medicine. Alvan Wentworth Chapman practiced in Apalachicola, on the Florida panhandle, and botanized the Gulf coast so thoroughly that his Flora of the Southern United States, published in 1860, stood for decades as the book on the region's plants; this scrub oak carries his name in thanks. Quercus chapmanii is an oak of the deep coastal sands, the scrub and sandhills from South Carolina around