TEXAS POST OAK
Quercus stellata
Also known as Iron Wood
A fierce tree found growing in the Texas Post Oak Savannah, Post Oak is a staple of the Texan landscape. This wood is hard, hard as a Texas Ranger faced with lawlessness, or possibly batting against Nolan Ryan in 1981.
Character
Texas Post Oak, scientifically known as Quercus stellata, is a medium-large sized deciduous tree native to the southern United States, notably Texas. Its distinctive features include deeply lobed, glossy dark green leaves with irregular edges, which turn various shades of yellow and brown in the fall.
Post Oak produces small acorns, enclosed in shallow, scaly cups, which serve as a significant food source for wildlife mainly squirrels. Thriving in diverse soil types, from sandy to clay found across what's known as The Texas Post Oak Savannah, Texas Post Oak is renowned for its resilience to drought once established. With its rough, dark gray bark and broad, rounded crown, it provides essential habitat for various wildlife species and contributes to soil stability.
Historically valued for its dense wood in construction and furniture making, as well as its cultural significance in the region, Texas Post Oak remains a cherished component of the Texas landscape, prized for its ecological and aesthetic contributions.
It's really hard, like, really really hard, which makes it perfect for applications requiring a high level of durability. It has tons of knots, like TONS. Most of the time, tons of knots means rustic, and Texas Post Oak is certainly that, but this species also mixes well in very contemporary designs. Designers have been known to paint every wall white in a space and let Post Oak be a warming agent for an otherwise sterile environment.
Color
Texas Post Oak has a great tonal width, with a wide range of light to dark colors. Each board boasts tones of gray, cream, brown, and with the knots, black.
Usage
The most common uses for Texas Post Oak are flooring, paneling, cabinets, and molding.
Flooring and Paneling:
One of our most popular flooring and paneling options, Post oak hardwood flooring is popular for its durability, distinctive grain pattern, and amount of knots. We once only sold this product to lodges and cabins in need of the rustic appeal. Today, Texas Post Oak can still be found in the rustic environment, but has become a go to for modern designers and architects looking for something unique and natural for their designs.
Cabinetry:
Texas Post Oak cabinets offer a truly unique style. They amount of color tones and grain pattern is amazing when wider surface areas are created for cabinets.
Molding:
Post Oak molding has a truly unique feel, it's unlike any molding we produce and can only be compared with Knotty Alder as far as amounts of knots. Post Oak molding doesn't come without issues, the amount of knots is hard on molding knives and knots do break the grain structure of the wood making weaker moments in that part of the board which can lead to breakage of the molding.
Fun Facts about Post Oak
- There are over five settlements in Texas named Post Oak.
- Post Oak has a very thick bark, making it resistant to fire.
- Post Oaks have been used to tell the fire history of an area by examining their growth rings.
- We acquired one of the largest Post Oak trees in the state of Texas . We''ll turn it into Post Oak flooring, live edge slabs, and Post Oak lumber.
