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  2. Quercus lyrata - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Acorn - Wikipedia

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    The acorn is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus, Notholithocarpus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains a seedling surrounded by two cotyledons (seedling leaves), enclosed in a tough shell known as the pericarp, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule .

  4. Oak - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Quercus phellos - Wikipedia

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    Quercus phellos, the willow oak, ... The fruit is an acorn, 8–12 millimeters (5 ... light green leaf color and full crown.

  6. List of Quercus species - Wikipedia

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    Section Mesobalanus was included in section Quercus in the 2017 classification used here. Other synonyms include Q. sect. Albae and Q. sect. Macrocarpae. The section comprises the white oaks from Europe, Asia, north Africa, Central and North America. [2] Styles short; acorns mature in 6 months, sweet or slightly bitter, inside of acorn shell ...

  7. Quercus pagoda - Wikipedia

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    Acorns: The acorn is about 1.5 cm (1 ⁄ 2 in) long, globular or hemispheric, with up to one-third of its length enclosed in a shallow thin cap. Acorns per pound range from 200 to 750. Acorns per pound range from 200 to 750.

  8. Quercus acutissima - Wikipedia

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    Quercus acutissima is closely related to the Turkey oak, classified with it in Quercus sect. Cerris, a section of the genus characterized by shoot buds surrounded by soft bristles, bristle-tipped leaf lobes, and acorns that mature in about 18 months. [3]

  9. Quercus subg. Quercus - Wikipedia

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    Quercus sect. Lobatae was established by John Claudius Loudon in 1830. [3] The section, or part of it, has also been treated under names including Quercus sect. Rubrae Loudon and Quercus sect. Erythrobalanus Spach. It has also been treated as the subgenus Erythrobalanus and as the full genus Erythrobalanus (Spach) O.Schwarz. Its members may be ...