Quercus robur |
Quercus gravesii |
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British oak, chêne pédoncule, English oak, French oak, pedunculate oak |
Chisos red oak, Graves oak |
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Habit | Trees, deciduous, to 30 m. Bark light gray, scaly. | Trees, deciduous, to 13 m. Bark black, roughly furrowed. |
Twigs | brown, 2-3 mm diam., glabrous. |
light brown to dark reddish brown, (1-)1.5-2.5 mm diam., glabrous or glabrate. |
Buds | dark brown, ovoid, distally obtuse, 2-3 mm, glabrous. |
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Leaves | blade obovate to narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate (some cultivars oblanceolate), (50-)70-150(-200) × (20-)35-85(-100) mm, base strongly cordate, often minutely revolute or folded, margins moderately to deeply lobed, lobes rounded or retuse distally, sinuses extending 1/3-7/8 distance to midrib, secondary veins arched, divergent, (3-)5-7 on each side, apex broadly rounded; surfaces abaxially light green, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, glabrous at maturity, adaxially deep green to light green or gray, dull or glossy. |
blade ovate to elliptic, 45-140 × 20-120 mm, base rounded (rarely subcordate) to obtuse or cuneate, margins with 3-5 acute lobes, 9-20 awns, apex broadly obtuse or acute to attenuate, occasionally falcate; surfaces abaxially light green or coppery green, glabrous with small axillary tufts of tomentum or pubescent along midrib and veins, adaxially shiny or glossy, glabrous except for scattered pubescence near base and along midrib. |
Acorns | 1-3, on very thin (1-2 mm diam.), flexuous peduncle (25-)35-65(-100) mm; cup hemispheric to deeply goblet-shaped, enclosing 1/4-1/2 nut or more, scales closely appressed, often in concentric rows, finely grayish tomentose; nut brown, ovoid, oblong, or cylindric, 15-30(-35) × 12-20 mm, glabrous. |
biennial; cup turbinate or deeply cup-shaped, 4.5-8.5 mm high × 7.5-12 mm wide, covering 1/3-1/2 nut, outer surface glabrate, inner surface glabrous to pubescent on inner 2/3, scale tips appressed, less than 4 mm, acute; nut ovoid to ellipsoid, rarely subglobose or oblong, 9-16 × 5.5-11 mm, occasionally striate, glabrous to puberulent, especially at apex, scar diam. 3-6 mm. |
Cotyledons | distinct. |
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Terminal | buds brown or reddish brown, ovoid or ellipsoid to subconic, 2-5 mm, glabrous or with tuft of hairs at apex. |
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2n | = 24. |
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Quercus robur |
Quercus gravesii |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Roadsides, pastures, forest margins and woodlands | Davis, Glass, and Chisos mountains |
Elevation | 0-1000 m (0-3300 ft) | above 1200 m (above 3900 ft) |
Distribution |
BC; NB; NS; PE [Introduced from Europe]
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TX; n Mexico |
Discussion | Quercus robur is one of the oaks most commonly cultivated in temperate and subtropical parts of the world. In North America it is most commonly seen in the eastern and northwestern parts of the United States and and in southeastern and southwestern Canada, where it tolerates a wide array of conditions and is extremely hardy. In Washington, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, apparently reproducing populations persist in the wild. Elsewhere, although actual naturalization appears to be rare, Q. robur should be expected to persist around old homesites and other places of cultivation. Quercus robur most closely resembles our native species Q. alba in leaf form. In contrast with Q. alba, which has relatively long petioles (longer than 10 mm), acute leaf bases, and subsessile fruit (rarely on peduncles to 25 mm), Q. robur is easily distinguished by its shorter petioles (less than 10 mm), cordate, almost clasping, leaf bases, and fruit on long (more than 35 mm), thin peduncles. Quercus robur is one of the oaks most widely celebrated in literature; it has wood of exceptionally high quality for the manufacture of furniture, and it previously was the most important wood used in the manufacture of wooden sailing vessels in Europe. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Quercus gravesii reportedly hybridizes with Q. hypoleucoides. As noted above, forms of Q. gravesii and Q. robusta are easily confused and give the impression of belonging to a single morphologic continuum. Some authors have also used the name Quercus texana for Q. gravesii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Quercus | Fagaceae > Quercus > sect. Lobatae |
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Synonyms | Q. pedunculata | Q. chisosensis, Q. shumardii var. microcarpa, Q. stellipila, Q. texana var. chisosensis, Q. texana var. stellapila |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 996. (1753) | Sudworth: Check List For. Trees U.S., 86. (1927) |
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