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Quercus alba, the white oak, is one of the preeminent hardwoods of eastern and central North America. It is a long-lived oak, native to eastern and central North America and found from Minnesota, Ontario, Quebec, and southern Maine south as far as northern Florida and eastern Texas. [3]
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 ...
The generic name Quercus is Latin for "oak", derived from Proto-Indo-European *kwerkwu-, ... A hybrid white oak, possibly Quercus stellata × Q. muehlenbergii.
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 ...
It is commonly known as the Garry oak, Oregon white oak or Oregon oak. It grows from sea level to an altitude of 690 feet (210 metres) in the northern part of its range, and from 980 to 5,900 ft (300 to 1,800 m) in the south of the range in California. [4] The eponymous Nicholas Garry was deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.
In the 1700s, a young botanist scandalized some by discussing “birds and bees” of pollination, and awarding Latin names to plants and animals. Is that a ‘Quercus macrocarpa’ in the yard ...
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 can survive in a variety of habitats. It forms hybrids with bur oak where they occur together in the wild.
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