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Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. The rusty red leaves do turn a light brown into the winter and do not drop until early. Fall color can be spectacular rusty red and more striking the closer you get. The Crimson Spire Oak is another excellent narrow upright tree well suited to narrow planting strips, foundation plantings, screening and lining avenues for clear delineation.

It will occasionally have what I call a lazy lateral, a long heavy limb that hangs out beyond the majority of upright limbs. Introduced in 1994).This is a relatively fast growing tree that is drought tolerant and somewhat easy to transplant. This columnar, tightly fastigiate tree grows to a height of about 45 feet and spread of 15 feet. Leaves are smaller, dense and almost clustered along the upright lateral limbs. Dark green to bluish green mildew resistant foliage and reddish fall color is inherited from the White Oak parentage, while the fastigiate growth habit is inherited from the English Oak parentage. This columnar, tightly fastigiate hybrid of English and White Oak combines the best characteristics of both parents.

Tolerates a wide range of soil types. This is one tree that has shown some graft incompatibility but these bad boys are, or should be culled out by the nursery by the time you get them.Height 35-45'. When purchasing, take a close look at the graft union. Hardy to USDA Zone 5 Discovered by Willet. Leaves alternate, simple, obovate with three to five pairs of rounded lobes, 9-15 cm long by 5-9 cm wide, leaf base is rounded to broadly acute, dark green, rusty red in fall. These should be pruned back to build strength and join the rest of the upright crown.Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon: Deciduous tree, narrow columnar, upright, to 45 ft tall and 15 ft wide (14 × 4.5 m).

Let me know your experiences with this tree or others that we should know about. Apparently the Streetspire Oak has the very same characteristics as the Crimson Spire Oak except that the leaves fall in the fall, when they are supposed to.