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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 ...
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 Grave Oak (in German: Grabeiche, also known as the burial oak, Thümmel oak or "thousand-year-old oak ") is a striking old specimen of the pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) in Nöbdenitz in Thuringia. There is a grave site in the tree's hollow trunk. According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is the oldest pedunculate oak in Europe ...
Quercus, Quercus robur [58] Portugal: Cork oak: Quercus suber [59] Qatar: Christ's thorn jujube: Ziziphus spina-christi [60] Romania: Oak, Pedunculate oak: Quercus, Quercus robur [61] Russia: Siberian larch: Larix sibirica [62] [63] Saudi Arabia: Phoenix palm: Phoenix dactylifera Scotland: Scots pine: Pinus sylvestris [64] Senegal: Baobab ...
NVC community W10 (Quercus robur - Pteridium aquilinum - Rubus fruticosus woodland) is one of the woodland communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of the six communities falling in the "mixed deciduous and oak/birch woodlands" group. This is a widely distributed community, except in Scotland.
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 .
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
The Rumskulla oak, also known as the Kvill oak, is an oak tree (Quercus robur) [1] [2] near Norra Kvill National Park in Rumskulla socken, Vimmerby, Kalmar County, Småland, Sweden. It is the oldest oak in Sweden and one of the largest trees in Scandinavia, and was first described in 1772.