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Quercus variabilis is a medium-sized to large deciduous tree growing to 25–30 metres (82–98 feet) tall with a rather open crown, and thick corky bark with deep fissures and marked by sinuous ridges.
Quercus × crenata Lam. – Spanish oak – France, mainland Italy, Sicily, former Yugoslavia; Quercus gussonei (Borzì) Brullo – northern Sicily; Quercus ithaburensis Decne. – Mount Tabor's oak – southeastern Europe, southwestern Asia Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis, syn. Quercus macrolepis — Vallonea oak — # southwestern Asia
An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family. They have spirally arranged leaves, often with lobed edges, and a nut called an acorn, borne within a cup. The genus is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere; it includes some 500 species, both deciduous and evergreen. Fossil oaks date back to the Middle Eocene.
Quercus sinuata is a deciduous tree up to 20 metres (67 feet) tall. Leaves are narrow, with shallow rounded lobes. It tends to grow in wet habitats, such as on river bluffs, river bottoms, and flatwoods, and generally over basic substrates, such as mafic rocks, shells, or calcareous sediment.
Hooker Oak was an extremely large valley oak tree (Quercus lobata) in Chico, California. Amateur botanist and local socialite Annie Bidwell , whose husband had founded Chico, named the tree in 1887 after English botanist and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker .
Path near the "Chêne carré" (December 2011) The Forest of Tronçais is located in the inventaire forestier national [ fr ] (INF) sylvoecoregion [ fr ] of Boischaut et Champagne Berrichonne. The forest constitutes the most part of the massif du Tronçais, a highland region which spans about 12,000 ha (30,000 acres) and is part of the Massif ...
Quercus douglasii, known as blue oak, is a species of oak endemic to California, common in the Coast Ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. [4] It is California's most drought-tolerant deciduous oak, [5] and is a dominant species in the blue oak woodland ecosystem. It is occasionally known as mountain oak and iron oak. [6] [7]
Quercus bicolor, the swamp white oak, is a North American species of medium-sized trees in the beech family. It is a common element of America's north central and northeastern mixed forests. It is a common element of America's north central and northeastern mixed forests.