Chinquapin Oak Trees For Sale
Texas Grown Tree Farm offers container Chinquapin Oak trees for sale to our wholesale and retail customers. The Chinquapin Oak (or Chinkapin Oak), scientifically known as the Quercus Muehlenbergii, is a medium sized oak tree of the white oak family that normally grows 40 to 60 feet tall and features a large circular crown. At around 30 year of age, the Chinquapin Oak will begin to bear acorns which are sweet and edible, and also a favorite of many local wildlife species.
The Chinquapin Oak is an excellent shade tree as well as a low maintenance and long living tree. It is known as a great Oak tree for alkaline soils and is normally found in the the wild on wooded hillsides and in dry rocky soils. It's leaves are reddish to green and turn a shiny dark green at maturity. They can reach 4 to 6 inches long and have saw tooth edges that have a similarity to the leaves of a chestnut, whose nut has been called a chinquapin, hence the derived name.
