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
what3words: sped.grants.crusted
Tree number: 87
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
what3words: sped.grants.crusted
Tree number: 87
