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2 unusual facts about Quercus alba


Buffalo Hart, Illinois

A small grove of trees about 0.5 miles south of the village, which originally stood out amongst the tallgrass prairie grassland of central Illinois, has long been called "Buffalo Hart." A three-acre remnant of the white oak grove has been preserved for public use as the Robert Burns Memorial Park.

Trigalloyl glucose

Trigalloyl glucoses can be found in oaks species like the North American white oak (Quercus alba) and European red oak (Quercus robur).


Nichols Arboretum

Oaks - native oaks including red (Quercus rubra), white (Quercus alba), black (Quercus velutina), bur (Quercus macrocarpa), shingle (Quercus imbricaria), and swamp white (Quercus bicolor), as well as three Asian oaks representing sawtooth oak (Quercus acutissima) and oriental oak (Quercus variabilis).


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