The golden oak is a still very unknown tree, but incredibly beautiful. Over the years it gives a good shade, to the point that you can sit down leaning on its trunk and enjoy, for example, a good book or a picnic with friends.
It is not difficult to care for, but it needs a temperate climate with frosts in order to live well. If there is in your area and you are looking for a plant that can protect you from the sun throughout the year, discover the golden oak.
Origin and characteristics
The golden oak, whose scientific name is Quercus alnifolia, it is an evergreen tree native to the Troodos Mountains in Cyprus. Reaches a height of up to 10 meters, but it is also seen as a bush of few meters. The leaves are simple, ovobate to suborbicular, 1,5-6cm long by 1-5cm wide, glabrous, dark green on the upper surface and tomentose golden or brown on the underside.
The flowers are unisexual: the male ones are yellow-green grouped at the tips of the branches, and the female ones can appear alone or in groups of 2-3. The fruit is a sub-cylindrical acorn 2-2.5cm long by 0,8-1,2cm wide.
What are their cares?
If you want to have a copy, we recommend that you provide it with the following care:
- Location: outside, in full sun.
- Earth:
- Pot: universal growing substrate mixed with 30% perlite.
- Garden: fertile, with good drainage.
- Irrigation: water every 3-4 days in summer, and somewhat less the rest of the year.
- Subscriber: from the beginning of spring to the end of summer it must be paid with organic fertilizers once a month.
- Multiplication: by seeds in autumn. They need to spend some cold to be able to germinate.
- Rusticity: supports frosts down to -8ºC.
What did you think of the golden oak? Did you know him?
