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Quercus rotundifolia, the holm oak or ballota oak, [4] is an evergreen oak native to the western Mediterranean region, with the majority of the population in the Iberian Peninsula and minor populations in Northwest Africa. The species was first described by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1785.
Quercus ilex, the holm oak, [2] [3] also (ambiguously, as many oaks are evergreen) evergreen oak, [4] is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean region. It is a member of the section Ilex of the genus, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] with acorns that mature in a single summer.
Holm oak may refer to: Quercus ilex, tree native to South and Southeast Europe and parts of France; Quercus rotundifolia, tree native to the Iberian Peninsula and ...
The holm oak can also be found at higher elevations, but as isolated trees, not forming forests. Coastal oak forests and those of sublittoral mountains are extraordinarily rich and varied, with a variety of shrubs and lianas ; often accompanied by bramble , honeysuckle , ivy , Viburnum tinus , butcher's broom and, in the southwest of the ...
Lingering trees may hold the key to the survival of New York's forests in the face of insects and disease.
Barcelona, capital of the autonomous community of Catalonia, is located in the Spanish Levante region, on the Mediterranean coast. It is located on a plain about 11 km long and 6 km wide, bounded on its sides by the sea and by the Sierra de Collserola —with the summit of Tibidabo (516.2 m) as its highest point— as well as by the deltas of the Besòs and Llobregat rivers. [5]
Quercus ilex L. – holly oak or holm oak – # southern Europe; Quercus kingiana Craib – south-Central China, Myanmar, and Thailand; Quercus kongshanensis Y.C.Hsu & H.Wei Jen – China (Sichuan) Quercus lanata Sm. – woolly-leaved oak – # Himalayas, southeast Asia; Quercus leucotrichophora A.Camus – Banj oak, blackjack oak, grey oak ...
William Lucombe began his horticultural career as Head Gardener in the service of merchant Thomas Ball at Mamhead Park in Devon circa 1720. It was while working at Mamhead that he founded his nursery, the first commercial plant nursery in South West England, [3] marketing many of the plants collected by Ball during the latter's commercial travels abroad, most famously the Holm Oak. [4]