The "yellow" in these names comes from the tree's inner bark, which is yellowish in color. Black oak generally grows to about 80 feet tall, but like the willow oak, some can grow to be 100 feet tall.

Frequently when our mysterious tree is encountered in a forest, you'll see on the bark a series of holes, pecked or drilled by a sapsucker, probably the "Yellow-bellied" variety, Sphyrapicus varius.

The bark John Gibson, of Sydney, Cape Breton, that arrived at Quarantine last evening, after a voyage of 28 days from Cienfuegos, had a case of yellow fever on board during the voyage.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 26.--The German bark Orion, from Wilmington, N.C., for Liverpool, put into the Delaware Breakwater this morning with five of her crew sick with swamp fever.

Seeing a 150-year-old tree is impressive on its own, made all the more impactful by gorgeous mature bark. The brilliant red, orange, or yellow color of shrub branches is due to concentrations of ...