Quercus margaretta Vilmorin while the common name flame

while the common name flame azalea catches both that fire and the way the upright buds stand like candle flames

and flowers on the current season's growth

Older nursery copy that files the plant simply as Chinese sells the truth short

They belong to the white oak group

carried on glossy evergreen foliage and the easy autumn-into-winter habit that makes the sasanquas such dependable garden shrubs

Quercus margaretta Vilmorin while the common name flameThis oak is named for a woman the botanist married. William Willard Ashe, the tireless North Carolina forester who described hundreds of southern trees, set the species down as Quercus margaretta in honor of Margaret Henry Wilcox, whom he would wed in 1905; few oaks carry so personal a dedication. In plain terms, this is the sandhill cousin of the post oak, a smaller, finer boned version of Quercus stellata that trades the bottomland clay for dry,