Tree Description:
00-03b – The unusual Vilmorin’s Hybrid Oak (Quercus ×vilmoriniana) was the first known cross of the Asian Emperor’s Oak Quercus dentata with the European Durmast oak (Quercus petraea). The cross took place by a chance pollination of a solitary Emperor’s Oak at the French National Arboretum des Barres surrounded and pollenated by a natural forest of Durmast Oak. The original tree died from a fungal infection but a few F2 seedlings survive to perpetuate the hybrid. We have three of them here at Oak Ridge, including this one.
Location: 39.818986N, 89.659846W
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Oak Ridge Cemetery Trees 