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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Fagaceae
Quercus robur

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 996 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: English oak, common oak.

Description:
Tree to 30 m high; leaves deciduous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, often cordate at the base, pinnately lobed, glabrous except occasionally for a few hairs below at first, 5-12 cm long.

Male catkins 2-4 cm long.

Fruiting peduncles 2-8 cm long; acorns ellipsoid or oblong, brown, 1.5-4 cm long; cup clothed with small imbricate scales, covering up to half of the nut.

image of FSA1_Quercus_rob2.jpg male flowers, catkins
Image source: fig. 59b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Quercus_rob1.jpg
Image source: fig. 59c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Quercus_rob3.jpg
Image source: fig. 59a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Hora (1981) The Oxford encyclopedia of trees, pp. 10, 127.

Distribution:  Native to Europe, commonly grown as an ornamental. Probably not truly naturalised.

S.Aust.: NL, SL.   Vic.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


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