Details for: PI 44662, Quercus glauca Thunb., NA 1939

Type: Site identifier

Group: NA

Seedlings of trees growing at the Barbour Lathrop PI Garden under PI-74222, which was originally grown under PI-44662 (according to a handwritten note on the facing page of the PI book); this material is probably second-generation open-pollinated seed from wild-collected seedling parents. From the PI book: "Trees growing at the Barbour Lathrop Plant Introduction Garden, Savannah, GA. Numbered September, 1927. Bell No. 1232. A handsome evergreen Japanese oak 30 to 40 feet high, with lanceolate-serrate leaves 3 to 5 inches long, smooth and shining above and covered with a whitish bloom underneath. The ovoid acorns, nearly an inch long and one-third covered by the smooth cup, are borne in short spikes." Side note written in PI book in pencil: "74222 - Orig. grown under P.I. 44662." PI book entry for PI-44662: "From Nanking, China. Presented by Prof. Joseph Bailie, of the University of Nanking. Received April 27, 1917. Quercus sp. From Anhwei, November 14 to 30, 1916. Collected by students of Nanking University. (Bailie)." [Given the existence of a Bell number for the plant growing at the Barbour Lathrop PI Station, the material may have entered through Glenn Dale before being sent to Barbour Lathrop. It's hard to say more with any certainty without looking up the Bell number.]