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Quercus rysophylla is a large tree, up to 25 metres (82 feet) tall. It has smooth pale gray bark, which ages and becomes rough, deeply cracked and dark gray. [3] The leaves are lanceolate (lance shaped), up to 21 centimetres (8 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches) long. [4] It has acorns that are biennial, ripening the year after flowering. [3]
Quercus ilicifolia is a deciduous tree or shrub growing occasionally reaching a height of 6 meters (20 feet) but usually much smaller. [4] [5] It is gangly and can form a dense thicket. The plant grows from a large taproot, which reach 20 centimeters (8 inches) in thickness. The taproot lives a long time, producing several generations of above ...
Quercus robur, the pedunculate oak or English oak, [3] [4] is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae.It is a large tree, native to most of Europe and western Asia, and is widely cultivated in other temperate regions.
Quercus agrifolia, the California live oak, [3] or coast live oak, is an evergreen [4] live oak native to the California Floristic Province.Live oaks are so-called because they keep living leaves on the tree all year, adding young leaves and shedding dead leaves simultaneously rather than dropping dead leaves en masse in the autumn like a true deciduous tree. [5]
Category: Individual oak trees. Several oak trees hold cultural importance; such as the Royal Oak in Britain, [116] the Charter Oak in the United States, [117] and the Guernica oak in the Basque Country. [118] "The Proscribed Royalist, 1651", a famous painting by John Everett Millais, depicts a Royalist hiding in an oak tree while fleeing from ...
Quercus marilandica is a small deciduous tree growing to 15 meters (49 feet) tall, with bark cracked into rectangular black plates with narrow orange fissures. The leaves are 7–20 centimeters (3–8 inches) long and broad, and typically flare from a tapered base to a broad three-lobed bell shape with only shallow indentations.
Quercus myrsinifolia is an evergreen oak tree that grows up to 20 metres (66 ft) tall. Leaves are 60–110 × 18–40 mm with serrulate margins; the petiole is 10–25 mm long. The acorns are ovoid to ellipsoid, 14–25 × 10–15 mm, and glabrous with a rounded apex; the flat scar is approx. 6 mm in diameter. Cupules are 5–8 × 10–18 mm ...
The Bigelow oak grows to a height of 12 metres (39 feet), with a diameter at breast height of 81 centimetres (32 inches) and gray flaking bark. [1] The leaves range from 3–8 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long by 2–4.5 cm wide, with shapes Duncan & Duncan describe as "narrowly obovate to oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic", with "broadly rounded and bristleless" tips. [1]