Light: Full sun to full shade
Soil: moist to medium rich soil.
Growth: 60’ tall and wide
Acorns: Once processed to remove the toxic tannins, acorns can be eaten as a snack, or ground into flour.
Info: Excellent shade and street tree. As with all other oaks, the swamp white oak is a large attractor of insects. Best to plant the oak tree with a native garden underneath it to improve the habitat for all the ecologically beneficial insects it attracts.
Oak tree is 1.5’ tall
Light: Full sun to full shade
Soil: moist to medium rich soil.
Growth: 60’ tall and wide
Acorns: Once processed to remove the toxic tannins, acorns can be eaten as a snack, or ground into flour.
Info: Excellent shade and street tree. As with all other oaks, the swamp white oak is a large attractor of insects. Best to plant the oak tree with a native garden underneath it to improve the habitat for all the ecologically beneficial insects it attracts.
Oak tree is 1.5’ tall