Quercus imbricaria Pollinator and the species name lucida

and the species name lucida

the Chinese flame tree is tough where many ornamentals struggle

in colder spots the plant makes a fragrant container specimen to shelter through winter

scarlet calamint in all its color forms grows wild across the southern United States on deep

The flowers hang solitary and nodding

Quercus imbricaria Pollinator and the species name lucidaShingle oak is the oak that fools people, an oak with no lobes at all. The glossy, dark green leaves are long, entire, and laurel like, closer to a rhododendron or a bay than to the deep cut foliage of most oaks, and only the single bristle at each leaf tip gives the family away. A medium to large deciduous tree of forty to sixty feet, neat and pyramidal when young and rounding with age, the tree brings a clean, distinctive texture that few other