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Quercus lyrata, the overcup oak, is an oak in the white oak group (Quercus sect. Quercus). The common name, overcup oak, refers to its acorns that are mostly enclosed within the acorn cup. [ 3 ] It is native to lowland wetlands in the eastern and south-central United States, in all the coastal states from New Jersey to Texas , inland as far as ...
Quercus opaca produces male catkins that are 3-4 centimetres long and contain many flowers. Quercus opaca's fruit is an ovoid acorn which measures around 9 millimetres long which is also glabrous. The acorn is partly enclosed by a cupule that is half-rounded and slightly tomentose. The acorns mature within the first year and are typically ...
The genus Quercus contains about 500 known species, plus about 180 hybrids between them. [1] The genus, as is the case with many large genera, is divided into subgenera and sections. Traditionally, the genus Quercus was divided into the two subgenera Cyclobalanopsis, the ring-cupped oaks, and Quercus, which included
Quercus wislizeni, known by the common name interior live oak, [4] is an evergreen oak, highly variable and often shrubby, found in many areas of California [5] in the United States continuing south into northern Baja California in Mexico.
Quercus sect. Quercus has been known, either in whole or part, by a variety of names in the past, including Quercus sect. Albae, Quercus sect. Macrocarpae and Quercus sect. Mesobalanus. Members of the section may be called white oaks. The section includes all white oaks from North America (treated by Trelease as subgenus Leucobalanus). [2]
Quercus cornelius-mulleri acorns. Quercus cornelius-mulleri is a North American species of oak known by the common name Muller oak, or Muller's oak. It was described to science in 1981 when it was segregated from the Quercus dumosa complex and found to warrant species status of its own. [3] [4] [5] It was named after ecologist Cornelius Herman ...
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The flowers are wind-pollinated catkins; the fruit is an acorn, maturing about 18 months after pollination, 2–3 cm long and 1.5–2 cm broad, bicoloured with an orange basal half grading to a green-brown tip; the acorn cup is 2 cm deep, densely covered in soft 4–8 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 8 inch) long 'mossy' bristles.