OAK CHIPS, WHITE, EXTRACT

Description

Oak is a common name used to describe about 400 species of trees and shrubs. They have alternate, simple, deciduous or evergreen leaves and monoecious flowers, the staminate usually in slender pendulous catkins. The pistillate is nearly sessile and solitary or in groups of two or three, developing into acorns that are more or less globular or oblong nuts set in scaly involucres (caps). All species are native to the temperate and colder regions of the northern hemisphere. The bark is used in tanning. Q. alba is a tree up to 100 ft. high with stout, spreading branches forming a broad, open head; bark, light gray; leaves, obovate or oblong-obovate; acorn, oblong-ovate; scales, closely oppressed. The foliage assumes a beautiful, deep-vibrant red or violet-purple color in fall. The part used is the wood chips. Oak, white has an astringent taste.