Oak has always been a symbol of strength, power, individuality.It prefers full sun locations.If he does not interfere with neighboring trees, oak grows into a giant with a wide spreading crown, sometimes reaching a height of over 50 meters. When it comes to how flowering oak, it appears that very few people know what it looks like a flower oak, and many people do not evensuspect that the oak flowers.
There are at least 600 species of oaks.In our area the most common English oak, which has a beautiful spherical crown.Oak is among the trees longevity record-known oaks, with the age of more than a thousand years.
If a tree grows in freedom, oak flowers appear when it reaches the age of twenty, in dense stands - by about fifty years.Spring oak tree in no hurry to let the foliage, this is usually only at the end of April.
bloom at the same time leaves and flowers appear oak.Often people simply do not notice them, because in the view of many flowers should be just flowers - large and beautiful.And they are subtle oak, and, one might even say unattractive.
Male (staminate) flowers oak more noticeable.They have a yellowish-green color, very small and arranged in an inflorescence, resembling thin earrings.Whole bunches of them hang down.Among leaves them difficult to see in color, they blend in with the young leaves.
Female (pistillate) flowers of oak is even more difficult to see.The size of a pinhead, they are placed on special thin stems one by one or in several pieces.These stalks then formed acorns.
When the male flowers of oak unfold, their pollen is viable approximately 5 days.When the weather (sunny and windy) pollination takes place safely in the rain stops, and when frost inflorescence may even crumble.Good crops of acorns oak gives every 7-8 years.
Acorns adore forest hogs.People use them for animal feed, made from acorns coffee drink.They also collected for planting to restore oak.Young oak bark is used in pharmacology, it has tannins, astringent.Oak forests are cut down for many years in order to obtain very valuable wood.
Wood is used where necessary hardness, strength, resistance to the external environment - transport, shipbuilding, construction.Oak floors, parquet, laminate flooring, furniture are widely used.They are durable, reliable, environmentally friendly, has good energy.
natural color of oak is like a nice golden color, with dark and light wood and shades of greenish or reddish tone.Oak easy to work and allows you to get a variety of colors, from white to almost black wood, dominated by gold, brown and gray shades.
especially popular bleached oak.This color is in the nature of the wood only young trees, but over time it gets dark.For bleached oak natural wood is bleached and colored in accordance with the desired color and then varnished or coated with wax.
