Quercus acuta

<h2 id="description">Description</h2>
Due to its foliage and habitat, it looks rather unlike most other oaks. Quercus acuta is usually bushy and densely domed, reaching a height of 14 meters. The bark is smooth and dark grey. Leaves are dark and glossy above and yellowish beneath. They narrow to a long, finely-rounded tip. The flowers are on a stiff 5 cm catkin.
Heartwood is pale reddish brown to reddish brown. Sapwood is pale yellowish brown with a slightly reddish color.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a>

<h2 id="common-names">Common names</h2>
In Japan, it is called akagashi (赤樫 - あかがし), but is also known by the names oogashi (大樫 - オオガシ) and oobagashi (大葉樫 - オオバガシ).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a> <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a>
In the Korean language, it is 붉가시.

<h2 id="uses">Uses</h2>
Like shirakashi (白樫 - しらかし) (<a href="/facts/Quercus_myrsinifolia/r6BbCyqr">Quercus myrsinifolia</a>), whose wood is often called shirokashi outside of Japan, and other related sub-genera, Japanese Evergreen Oak, or akagashi, is a preferred choice for Japanese martial arts practice weapons such as <a href="/facts/Bokken/RHe4stYU">bokken</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a> This is due to its uniformly tight grain structure resulting from its continuous growing season. It should not be confused with the oriental or Asian white oak, <a href="/facts/Quercus_aliena/5Kq4nLEd">Quercus aliena</a>.

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">"Quercus acuta"Oaks of the World Accessed 8 April 2011. <a href="http://oaks.of.the.world.free.fr/quercus_acuta.htm" target="_blank">http://oaks.of.the.world.free.fr/quercus_acuta.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">Denk, Thomas; Grimm, Guido W.; Manos, Paul S.; Deng, Min & Hipp, Andrew L. (2017). "Appendix 2.1: An updated infrageneric classification of the oaks" (xls). figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5547622.v1. Retrieved 2023-02-24. <a href="https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Appendix_2_1_________An_updated_infrageneric_classification_of_the_oaks/5547622/1" target="_blank">https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Appendix_2_1_________An_updated_infrageneric_classification_of_the_oaks/5547622/1</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">木材図鑑 - Picture Book of Woods [1] Accessed 22 March 2017. (in Japanese) <a href="http://www.fuchu.or.jp/~kagu/mokuzai/aka-k.htm" target="_blank">http://www.fuchu.or.jp/~kagu/mokuzai/aka-k.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">TSUYUZAKI Shiro's Plant List - Hokkaido University <a href="http://hosho.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/~tsuyu/top/plt/beech/quercus/acu.html" target="_blank">http://hosho.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/~tsuyu/top/plt/beech/quercus/acu.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">植物和名ー学名インデックス YList - The YList Botanical Name - Scientific Name Index [2] Accessed 22 March 2017. (in Japanese) <a href="http://ylist.info/ylist_detail_display.php?pass=102" target="_blank">http://ylist.info/ylist_detail_display.php?pass=102</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">Zaimoku -
 Wood for Weapons [3] Accessed 22 March 2017. <a href="http://www.zaimoku.org/home/excellent-woods-for-high-impact-practice-within-japanese-martial-arts/" target="_blank">http://www.zaimoku.org/home/excellent-woods-for-high-impact-practice-within-japanese-martial-arts/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">James Goedkoop: "Woods for Training Weapons". Aikiweb [4] Accessed 10 November 2012. <a href="http://www.aikiweb.com/weapons/goedkoop1.html" target="_blank">http://www.aikiweb.com/weapons/goedkoop1.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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