{"id":809,"date":"2013-09-05T14:42:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T21:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/?page_id=809"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"black-oak","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/oaks\/black-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/QUVE1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-810 alignleft\" alt=\"Black Oak\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/QUVE1_lg-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/QUVE1_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/QUVE1_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/QUVE2_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-811 alignleft\" alt=\"Black Oak\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/QUVE2_lg-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/QUVE2_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/QUVE2_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This tree reaches 50 to 60 feet in height, and the spread is variable. The crown is often quite irregular: it can be narrow or wide-spreading, elongated or rounded. The leaves are shiny dark green in the summer, turning a beautiful red in the fall. They are large with 7 to 11 pointed lobes. It is a tree native from Maine to Florida, west to Minnesota and Texas. One of the black oaks on the Reed campus has been designated a Portland Heritage Tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tree reaches 50 to 60 feet in height, and the spread is variable. The crown is often quite irregular: it can be narrow or wide-spreading, elongated or rounded. The leaves are shiny dark green in the summer, turning a&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/oaks\/black-oak\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Black Oak<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810,"parent":790,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"trees_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-809","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/809\/revisions\/2171"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}