OakSoriety

Quercus ×turneri 'Spencer Turner' E. Wiltshire & Coombes

Full name:

Quercus ×turneri 'Spencer Turner' E. Wiltshire & Coombes, Lond. Nat., 80: 21 (2001)Cultivar name has been accepted as Registered is an accepted name.

Infrageneric Classification:

Subgenus Cerris × Quercus, Section Ilex × Quercus

Parentage:

Q. ilex L. × Q. robur L.

Nomenclature Note:

Name for plants of the original clone, a seedling resulting from the cross between Q. ilex and Q. robur grown and propagated by grafting at Turner’s Nursery, Leyton, Essex, UK c.1760. Named for the nursery owner.

Nomenclatural Standard:

3344 HILL

Nomenclatural Standard (Cultivar) or Type:

  • Photograph by Brian Pancott for the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens
    Photograph by Brian Pancott for the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens

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