Quercus myrsinifolia 25/7 Restock a haze of fragrant cream

a haze of fragrant cream against dark leaves

the Komine maple belongs at a woodland edge

a wildlife or xeric planting

dry sands of the coastal plain

The name tells the story twice over: Oxydendrum joins the Greek oxys

Quercus myrsinifolia 25/7 Restock a haze of fragrant creamThe cup gives them away. Most oaks set their acorns in a cup of overlapping scales, but Quercus myrsinifolia belongs to the ring cupped oaks of East Asia, the Cyclobalanopsis, whose acorn sits in a cup banded with smooth concentric rings like a tiny stacked beehive. They come from the warm temperate forests of Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan, long grown there as a garden and temple tree, and the Japanese reading of their narrow foliage earned them the