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| | Scarlet Oak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | This oak tree has leaves which to the untrained eye may resemble the pin oaks, but it is very difficult to get these trees confused. |
 | | The Scarlet Oak will avoid these locations, and instead grow in dry, sandy, or rocky areas, such as the sandstone ridges of the Appalachians, the glacier scoured hills of southern New England, or the sands of the coastal plain. |
 | | It prefers members of its own genus, the fl oak, the chestnut oak, and the white oak, for company, but it will also be found growing alongside hickories, chestnuts, and sassafrass. |
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