What sort of trees belong to the genus 'quercus'?
"Quercus pubescens Quercus pubescens, the downy oak or pubescent oak, is a species of white oak (genus ""Quercus"" sect. ""Quercus"") native to southern Europe and southwest Asia, from northern Spain (Pyrenees) east to the Crimea and the Caucasus. It is also found in France and parts of central Europe. Downy oaks typically grow in dry, lime-rich soils. It is a submediterranean species, growing from the coastline to deep in the continent. Its optimum is in the submediterranean region, characterized by hot dry summers and cool winters with little rain fall. In western and central Europe, downy oak is confined to"
"Quercus × alvordiana Quercus"" × ""alvordiana, the Alvord oak, is a hybrid oak in the genus ""Quercus"". It has been reported to be a hybrid between ""Quercus douglasii"" and ""Quercus turbinella"", or between ""Q. douglasii"" and ""Quercus john-tuckeri"", which was formerly considered to be a variety of ""Q. turbinella"". This is the most common hybrid of ""Q. douglasii"". It is endemic to California, where it occurs in the Southern Inner California Coast Ranges and western Transverse Ranges. ""'Quercus"" × ""alvordiana"" is a shrub or tree under tall which may be evergreen or deciduous. The leaves are up to 5 centimeters"
"Quercus fusiformis Quercus fusiformis (also often referred to as ""Q. virginiana"" var. ""fusiformis""), commonly known as escarpment live oak, plateau live oak, or plateau oak, is an evergreen or nearly evergreen tree. Its native range includes the Quartz Mountains and Wichita Mountains in southwestern Oklahoma, through Texas, to the Mexican states of Coahuila, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo León. ""Quercus fusiformis"" is an evergreen tree in the white oak section of the genus ""Quercus"". It is distinguished from ""Quercus virginiana"" (southern live oak) most easily by the acorns, which are slightly larger and with a more pointed apex. It is also a"
"Quercus robur Quercus robur, commonly known as common oak, pedunculate oak, European oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae. It is native to most of Europe west of the Caucasus. The tree is widely cultivated in temperate regions and has escaped into the wild in scattered parts of China and North America. ""Quercus robur"" (Latin ""quercus"", ""oak"" + ""robur"" ""strength, hard timber"") is the type species of the genus (the species by which the oak genus ""Quercus"" is defined), and a member of the white oak section (""Quercus"" section ""Quercus"")."
"The wood of ""Quercus incana"" is hard and strong, but the trees are usually too small to be good for any uses except fuel or posts. The acorns provide food for many animal species including the Sherman's fox squirrel, which lives in longleaf pine communities. Quercus incana Quercus incana is a species of oak known by the common names bluejack oak, upland willow oak, sandjack oak, and cinnamon oak. It is native to the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the United States, from Virginia around Florida to Texas and inland to Oklahoma and Arkansas. ""Quercus incana"" is a tree"
"Quercus canariensis Quercus canariensis, the Algerian oak or Mirbeck's oak is an oak in the section ""Quercus"" sect. ""Mesobalanus"", native to southern Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Despite the scientific name, it does not occur naturally today in the Canary Islands, though it may have in the past. ""Quercus canariensis"" is a medium-sized deciduous to semi-evergreen tree growing to 20–30 m tall with a trunk up to 1.5 m diameter. The leaves are 10–15 cm long and 6–8 cm broad, with 6-12 pairs of shallow lobes. The flowers are catkins; the fruit is an acorn 2.5 cm long and"
"Quercus falcata Quercus falcata, commonly known as the southern red oak or Spanish oak, is a tree in the red oak section (""Lobatae"") of the genus ""Quercus"" native to the eastern and south-central United States. ""Quercus falcata"" occurs on dry or sandy upland sites from southern New York (Long Island) south to central Florida and west to Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. In the northeastern portion of its range the species is relatively rare and found almost exclusively along the coast; its highest prevalence is throughout the piedmont region of the Southeast. ""Quercus falcata"" is a medium to large-sized deciduous tree"
"Oak An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (; Latin ""oak tree"") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 600 extant species of oaks. The common name ""oak"" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ""Lithocarpus"" (stone oaks), as well as in those of unrelated species such as ""Grevillea robusta"" (silky oaks) and the Casuarinaceae (she-oaks). The genus ""Quercus"" is native to the Northern Hemisphere, and includes deciduous and evergreen species extending from cool temperate to tropical latitudes in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and North Africa. North America contains the largest"
"Quercus serrata Quercus serrata () is an East Asian species of tree in the beech family. It is native to southern, central, and eastern China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. ""Quercus serrata"" is a deciduous oak tree reaching a height of occupying elevations from . Leaves are up to long by wide, leathery, elliptical in shape, with serrated margins. Leaves are densely covered with trichomes when young becoming glabrous with age. Petioles are short (3 cm). Flowers are pistillate inflorescences from long occurring in March to April. Seeds are oval shaped acorns long and take 1 year to mature. A cup"
"Quercus oleoides Quercus oleoides, with Spanish common names encina or encino, is a Mesoamerican species of oak in the white oak group (""Quercus"" sect. ""Quercus""). It grows in dry forests and pastureland of eastern and southern Mexico and much of Central America, from Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica north as far as the State of Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico. ""Quercus oleoides"" is a slow-growing tree, reaching in height. Its pale gray leaves are evergreen, thick, hard, 4 to 11 cm (0.8-4.4 inches) long, 2 to 5 cm (0.8-1.0 inch) wide, oblong or elliptic. It flowers from December through May, with"
"Quercus alnifolia Quercus alnifolia, commonly known as the golden oak, is an evergreen oak species of Cyprus. Its common English name refers to the golden coloured lower surface of its leaves. ""Quercus alnifolia"" belongs to the endemic flora of the island and it is confined to the igneous geological complex of the Troodos Mountains. In February 2006, the parliament of Cyprus selected the golden oak to be the country's national tree. ""Quercus alnifolia"" belongs to section ""Cerris"", as with much of the mediterranean evergreen oak species. Occasional hybridization with kermes oak (""Quercus coccifera"" ssp. ""calliprinos"") has been described. The golden"
"tree was at least 200 years old, stood tall, and had a spread. Quercus falcata Quercus falcata, commonly known as the southern red oak or Spanish oak, is a tree in the red oak section (""Lobatae"") of the genus ""Quercus"" native to the eastern and south-central United States. ""Quercus falcata"" occurs on dry or sandy upland sites from southern New York (Long Island) south to central Florida and west to Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. In the northeastern portion of its range the species is relatively rare and found almost exclusively along the coast; its highest prevalence is throughout the piedmont"
"Quercus langbianensis Quercus langbianensis is the accepted name of an uncommon oak tree species in the Asian sub-genus of ""Cyclobalanopsis"" in the family Fagaceae. These differ from other ""Quercus"" subgenera in that they have acorns with distinctive cups: usually with substantial rings, made-up of scales that have grown together. This species can be found in sub-tropical and tropical seasonal forests of Cambodia, China (mostly Yunnan) and Vietnam. ""Quercus langbianensis"" is an evergreen tree that reaches a height of up to 15 m. The bark is rough, with spots. The branches are brown and tomentose when young, less hairy with age."
"Quercus grisea Quercus grisea, commonly known as the gray oak, shin oak or scrub oak, is a North American species deciduous or evergreen shrub or medium-sized tree in the white oak group. It is native to the mountains of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It hybridizes with four other oak species where the ranges of each overlap, the Arizona white oak (""Q. arizonica""), the Gambel oak (""Q. gambelii""), the Mohr oak (""Q. mohriana"") and the sandpaper oak (""Q. pungens""). The gray oak grows in the mountains of the southwestern United States (western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and"
"male catkins that are 3 to 4 cm (1.2-1.6 inches) long, and female catkins that are 3 to 30 mm long, containing one to six flowers, each about 7 mm long. Its wood is extremely heavy with intercrossed grains; the sapwood is white, and heartwood brown. Quercus oleoides Quercus oleoides, with Spanish common names encina or encino, is a Mesoamerican species of oak in the white oak group (""Quercus"" sect. ""Quercus""). It grows in dry forests and pastureland of eastern and southern Mexico and much of Central America, from Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica north as far as the State"
"Sequoia (genus) Sequoia is a genus of redwood coniferous trees in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae. The only extant species of the genus is ""Sequoia sempervirens"" in the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion of Northern California and Southwestern Oregon in the United States. The two other genera, ""Sequoiadendron"" and ""Metasequoia"", in the subfamily Sequoioideae are closely related to ""Sequoia"". It includes the tallest trees in the world. Several extinct species have been named from fossils, including ""Sequoia affinis ""(Western North America), ""Sequoia chinensis"" (no valid reference, identification uncertain) of China, ""Sequoia langsdorfii"" (reclassified as Metasequoia), ""Sequoia dakotensis"" (reclassified"
"Quercus incana Quercus incana is a species of oak known by the common names bluejack oak, upland willow oak, sandjack oak, and cinnamon oak. It is native to the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the United States, from Virginia around Florida to Texas and inland to Oklahoma and Arkansas. ""Quercus incana"" is a tree growing to about 10 meters (33 feet) in height, with a maximum height around 15 meters. The ""national champion bluejack"" was a specimen from Texas that was 15.5 meters (51 feet) tall and 2.1 meters (7 feet) in circumference, and had a crown spread of"
"Quercus rugosa Quercus rugosa, commonly known as the netleaf oak, is a broad-leaved tree in the beech and oak family Fagaceae. It is native to southern North America. ""Quercus rugosa"" is Latin for ""wrinkled oak"". In Spanish it has many common names like ""encino negro"" (black oak) or ""encino quiebra hacha"" (axe-breaking oak). ""Quercus rugosa"" is an evergreen shrub or tree. Bark is brown and scaly. Leaves are thick and leathery, rarely flat, usually cupped, up to 15 cm (6 inches) long, dark green on the top but covered with a thick of reddish-brown hairs on the underside. Young leaves"
"a tree up to 12 meters tall, with a trunk up to 30 cm in diameter. Leaves elliptical, up to 12 cm long, wavy edges but no teeth or lobes. Quercus coffeicolor Quercus coffeicolor is a Mexican species of oak in the beech family. It is native to Nayarit, Sinaloa, and Jalisco in western Mexico. Trelease in 1924 simultaneously published three names for what nearly all present-day botanists consider to be one species. Some publications have referred to this taxon as ""Quercus prainiana"" but this name turns out to have been used earlier, in 1913, applied to an Asian species"
"Quercus cerris Quercus cerris, the Turkey oak or Austrian oak, is an oak native to south-eastern Europe and Asia Minor. It is the type species of ""Quercus"" sect. ""Cerris"", a section of the genus characterised by shoot buds surrounded by soft bristles, bristle-tipped leaf lobes, and acorns that usually mature in 18 months. ""Quercus cerris"" is a large deciduous tree growing to 25–40 m tall with a trunk up to 2 m diameter. The bark is dark grey and deeply furrowed. On mature trees the bark fissures are often streaked orange near the base of the trunk. The glossy leaves"
"Quercus kerrii Quercus kerrii is an uncommon Asian species of tree in the family Fagaceae and the ""ring-cupped oak"" sub-genus. It is native to Thailand and Vietnam. There are also populations in southern China that according to some authors belong to ""Q. kerrii"" but considered by others to belong to a different species, ""Q. helferiana."" ""Quercus kerrii"" is a tree up to 20 m. tall with hairy twigs. Leaves can be as much as 240 mm long. The acorn is oblate, 7-12 × 20–28 mm, apex depressed to flat, with a scar that is 10–20 mm in diameter and slightly"
"Quercus welshii Quercus welshii, the wavy leaf oak, shinnery oak, or Tucker oak, is a North American species of shrub in the (beech family) found in the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region of the southwestern United States. ""Quercus welshii"" is a deciduous shrub tall. ""Quercus welshii"" has an elaborate root system that helps stabilize soils in sandy desert scrub communities. Elliptical or lance-shaped leaves with 6-10 lobes along the margins, with pointed tips, sometimes with lobes and teeth. Leaves are up to long with dense hairs on both sides, becoming smooth with age. ""Quercus welshii"" is well anchored in sandy"
"diameter, flat to concave at maturity. Flowering is in March–April, acorns found from October–November. Quercus helferiana Quercus helferiana is a species of tree in the family Fagaceae and the ""ring-cupped oak"" sub-genus. It is native to Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, India, and southern China (Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou). ""Quercus helferiana"" is a tree up to 20 m. tall, with a trunk up to 0.3 m in diameter. Leaves oblong-elliptic, to elliptic-lanceolate, 120-150 (up to 220) × 40-80 (up to 95) mm, with wavy edges but no teeth or lobes. The acorn is oblate, 10-16 × 15–22 mm, grey, with a"
"the ""civic oak crown"". Linnaeus described only five species of oak from eastern North America, based on general leaf form. These were white oak, ""Quercus alba""; chestnut oak, ""Q. montana""; red oak, ""Q. rubra""; willow oak ""Q. phellos""; and water oak, ""Q. nigra"". Because he was dealing with confusing leaf forms, the ""Q. montana"" and ""Q. rubra"" specimens actually included mixed foliage of more than one species. Oak An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (; Latin ""oak tree"") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 600 extant species of oaks. The common name ""oak"""
"and 'Lucombeana' (Lucombe oak), raised by William Lucombe at his nursery in Exeter c.1762. An early specimen raised by Lucombe is at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. A similar Lucombe oak was felled by fungus and a light wind in Phear Park, Exmouth 15 February 2009. Quercus cerris Quercus cerris, the Turkey oak or Austrian oak, is an oak native to south-eastern Europe and Asia Minor. It is the type species of ""Quercus"" sect. ""Cerris"", a section of the genus characterised by shoot buds surrounded by soft bristles, bristle-tipped leaf lobes, and acorns that usually mature in 18 months. ""Quercus"
"Quercus pungens Quercus pungens, commonly known as the sandpaper oak or scrub oak, is a North American species evergreen or sub-evergreen shrub or small tree in the white oak group. There is one recognised variety, ""Quercus pungens var. vaseyana"", the Vasey shin oak. Sandpaper oak hybridizes with gray oak (""Quercus grisea"") in the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico and Texas. Sandpaper and Vasey shin oaks are abundant in the Edwards Plateau and the Trans-Pecos region of Texas. They also occur in the Guadalupe Mountains and westward to the mountains of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico, and in northern and"
"a revolute margin, the epidermis bullate; at least, one can differenciate ""Q. obtusata"" from ""Q. laeta"" which has foliar underside glaucous, without masses of glandular secretions, none or rare glandular trichomes, a leaf more oblong than oboval with a margin sometimes entire. [1] Quercus obtusata Quercus obtusata is an oak in the white oak group (""Quercus"" sect. ""Quercus"") endemic to Mexico, with a distribution ranging from San Luis Potosí and Nayarit south to Oaxaca, from 620 to 2800 MSL ""Quercus obtusata"" is a tree up to 20 meters tall with a trunk sometimes more than 60 cm in diameter. Leaves"
"Quercus macrocarpa Quercus macrocarpa, the bur oak, sometimes spelled burr oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section ""Quercus"" sect. ""Quercus"", native to North America in the eastern and central United States and eastern and central Canada. This plant is also called mossycup oak and mossycup white oak. ""Quercus macrocarpa"" is widespread in the Atlantic coastal plain from New Brunswick to North Carolina, west as far as Alberta, eastern Montana, Wyoming, and northeastern New Mexico. The vast majority of the populations are found in the eastern Great Plains, the Mississippi–Missouri–Ohio Valley, and the Great Lakes region. ""Quercus"
"Sorbus torminalis Sorbus torminalis, with common names wild service tree, chequers, and checker tree, is a species of ""Sorbus"" native to Europe from England and Wales east to Denmark and Poland, south to northwest Africa, and southeast to southwest Asia from Asia Minor to the Caucasus and Alborz mountains. It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to tall, with a trunk up to in diameter. The bark is smooth and greyish, but flaky, peeling away in squarish plates to reveal darker brown layers. The leaves are long and broad with a petiole, dark green on both sides, with five to"
"long, a dull blue to gray-green on top and paler green on the undersides. The leaf blades have toothed edges and some have pointed tips. The acorn is narrow in shape and up to 4 centimeters long, with a cup up to 1.6 centimeters wide. Quercus × alvordiana Quercus"" × ""alvordiana, the Alvord oak, is a hybrid oak in the genus ""Quercus"". It has been reported to be a hybrid between ""Quercus douglasii"" and ""Quercus turbinella"", or between ""Q. douglasii"" and ""Quercus john-tuckeri"", which was formerly considered to be a variety of ""Q. turbinella"". This is the most common hybrid"
"Quercus hemisphaerica Quercus hemisphaerica (sand laurel oak, laurel oak, Darlington oak, laurel-leaf oak) is a species of oak native to the southeastern and south-central United States, from Texas to Delaware. It is in the red oak section ""Quercus"" sect. ""Lobatae"". It is often confused with and closely related to the ""Quercus laurifolia"" (swamp laurel oak) in which it differs in several key characteristics. ""Quercus hemisphaerica"" is a medium-sized evergreen to semi-evergreen tree which can grow as tall as 115 feet (35 m) tall with a 5-foot (1.5 m) trunk diameter, although it is more commonly around 60 to 65 feet"
"Quercus dumosa Quercus dumosa is a species of plant in the Fagaceae family, belonging to the white oak section of the oak genus (""Quercus""). This tree goes by the common names coastal sage scrub oak and Nuttall's scrub oak. ""Quercus dumosa"" is found in Baja California and in California. It is threatened by habitat loss. The species lends its name to the plant community called the """"Quercus dumosa"" chaparral"", in which Coastal sage scrub oak and toyon often co-dominate in chaparral. ""Quercus dumosa"" is an evergreen shrub growing 1 to 3 meters (40-120 inches or 3.3-10.0 feet) tall from a"
"as USDA zone 6a. For this reason the tree has become popular within the landscape industry for its beauty, ability to endure urban conditions, and general hardiness. It is prevalently used for these purposes in Texas and southern Oklahoma but use is becoming more widespread in the Western US. Quercus fusiformis Quercus fusiformis (also often referred to as ""Q. virginiana"" var. ""fusiformis""), commonly known as escarpment live oak, plateau live oak, or plateau oak, is an evergreen or nearly evergreen tree. Its native range includes the Quartz Mountains and Wichita Mountains in southwestern Oklahoma, through Texas, to the Mexican states"