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| | Laurel oak -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | It is a (A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms) tree growing to 20-25 m tall, and has a large circular crown. |
 | | The (The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty) leaves are broad lanceolate, 5-10 cm long and 2-4 cm broad, and unlobed (very rarely three-lobed) with an entire margin and a bristle tip; they typically fall just as the new leaves start to emerge in spring. |
 | | The (Fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base) acorns, borne in a shallow cup, are hemispherical, 9-12 mm long, green, maturing flish-brown about 18 months after pollination. |
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