TURKEY OAK (Quercus Caleabcei, Michx.). 20 to 30 feet, rarely 60 feet. Round-topped tree of stout, angular branches, often shrubby. Bark dark gray, with reddish under layers, broken into scaly plates. Wood reddish brown, close-grained, heavy, used for fuel. Leaves oblong, or triangular, deeply cleft by wide, rounded sinuses, into 3 to 7 elongated, sickle. shaped, bristly-pointed lobes; thick, stiff, yellow-green, shin ing, paler beneath, with tufts of hairs in angles of veins.
Length and breadth about 5 inches, average. Acorns oval, about 1 inch long, brown, with white tomentum at apex, set in shallow, turbinated, thin cup. Dist.: Dry, sandy ridges North Carolina to Florida; west to Louisiana.