Quercus myrsinifolia 25/7 Restock a haze of fragrant cream

a haze of fragrant cream against dark leaves

redwing is easygoing and quick

For anyone drawn to unusual

Robert Lee Riffle

Full sun to part shade suits the plant

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