Quercus

 CHARACTERISTICS OF TREE
Scientific Name : Quercus robur
Family: Fagaceae
Unified Name : Quercus
Growing areal : It grows in Europe and in North America and Asia
Environment: It develops both sporadically and in real forests (Quercus forest)
Trunk; logs and tissues: Trees of high longevity of considerable height (40-45 m). Diameter, at breast height, reaching up to 200 cm. Habit is quite regular and straight.


WOOD APPEARANCE TO THE NAKED EYE
Texture : Coarse
Fiber: Straight but not always regular
Grain: Evident, dark and marked
Color : Sapwood white-yellowish with heartwood light brown
Drawing: Variegated with pith rays (called ray flecks) evident in all sections but mostly in tangential sections.