Quercus austrina, the bastard white oak or bluff oak, is an oak species that is endemic to the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States from Mississippi to South Carolina; previously reported populations in Arkansas and North Carolina were misidentifications.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Bluff Oak being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fagales
- Family
- Fagaceae
- Genus
- Quercus
- Species
- Quercus austrina
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