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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 lobata Née – valley oak or California white oak – California; Quercus lusitanica Lam. – gall oak or Lusitanian oak – Iberia, North Africa; Quercus lyrata Walter – overcup oak – eastern North America; Quercus × macdonaldii Greene & Kellogg – California; Quercus macdougallii Martínez – Mexico; Quercus macranthera Fisch ...
Quercus estremadurensis is a mostly deciduous tree (when mature rarely marcescent or semievergreen) within the roburoid [4] quercus subsection (that also comprises Quercus robur, Quercus petraea, Quercus hartwissiana and Quercus canariensis) thus sharing a good number of features with its closest relative Quercus robur such as bearing shortly petiolate broad and glabrous auriculated leaves ...
Quercus robur (from the Latin quercus, "oak" + robur derived from a word meaning robust, strong) was named by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum (1753). [11] [12] It is the type species of the genus and classified in the white oak section (Quercus section Quercus). [13] It has numerous common names, including "common oak", "European oak" and ...
Quercus ilex, the holm oak, [2] [3] also (ambiguously, as many oaks are evergreen) evergreen oak, [4] is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean region. It is a member of the section Ilex of the genus, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] with acorns that mature in a single summer.
The Granit oak in Bulgaria, a Q. robur specimen, has an estimated age of 1637 years, making it the oldest oak in Europe. [9] The Wi'aaSal tree, a live oak in the reservation of the Pechanga Band of Indians, California, is at least 1000 years old, and might be as much as 2000 years old, which would make it the oldest oak in the US. [10]
Quercus × bimundorum (or Quercus bimundorum), known as two worlds oak, is a naturally occurring hybrid of white oak, Quercus alba (from the New World), and pedunculate oak, Quercus robur (introduced from the Old World). It occurs sporadically where they come in contact in the United States. [2] Its parents are both placed in Quercus sect ...
The ancient oak tree (Quercus robur) is located at the side of the B1172 road between Wymondham and Hethersett in Norfolk, England. The tree is the traditional location where in 1549 Robert Kett and his brother William addressed a group of men in what was to become Kett's Rebellion .