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Quercus stellata, the post oak or iron oak, is a North American species of oak in the white oak section. It is a slow-growing oak that lives in dry areas on the edges of fields, tops of ridges, and also grows in poor soils, and is resistant to rot, fire, and drought. Interbreeding occurs among white oaks, thus many hybrid species combinations ...
– California scrub oak – # California; Quercus bicolor Willd. – swamp white oak – eastern and midwestern North America; Quercus × bimundorum E.J.Palmer — two worlds oak; Quercus boyntonii Beadle – Boynton's post oak – south central North America; Quercus canariensis Willd. – Mirbeck's oak or Algerian oak – # North Africa & Spain
Quercus hypoleucoides, the silverleaf oak or the whiteleaf oak, is a North American species of oak tree or shrub. It grows in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It grows in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
In the 1700s, a young botanist scandalized some by discussing “birds and bees” of pollination, and awarding Latin names to plants and animals.
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.
Quercus stellata: post oak Fagaceae (beech family) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes IUCN (LC) 835 Quercus texana: nuttall oak Fagaceae (beech family) Yes Yes IUCN (LC) 828 Quercus turbinella: shrub live oak Fagaceae (beech family) Yes IUCN (LC) Quercus undulata: waxy leaf oak Fagaceae (beech family) Yes Quercus vaseyana: Vasey oak Fagaceae ...
Quercus margarettae (spelling variants include Quercus margaretta, Quercus margarettiae, and Quercus margaretiae), the sand post oak or dwarf post oak, is a North American species of oak in the beech family. It is native to the southeastern and south-central United States from Virginia to Florida and west as far as Texas and Oklahoma. [3]
Northern red oak trees have been shown to increase growth in the presence of various ascomycetes that coil at the base of the oak trunk. The fungi, which eventually proliferate at the stumps of deciduous trees, have been found to be host-specific to both Quercus rubra and Quercus montana [27] and primarily promote growth upon infection. [27]