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Full Name: - Quercus cerris

Quercus cerris L. (1753)
Infrageneric Classification
Subgenus Cerris, Section Cerris
Common Names in this Database
Infraspecific Taxa Accepted in this Database
Quercus cerris Variegata Group Lodd. ex Loud. (1838)
Natural Distribution
EUROPE: ALBANIA, AUSTRIA, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVENIA, BULGARIA, CROATIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, SE FRANCE, GREECE, HUNGARY, ITALY, MACEDONIA, ROMANIA, SERBIA, SICILIA, SLOVAKIA, SWITZERLAND, WEST ASIA: LEBANON, SYRIA, TURKEY: (European & Anatolia)
Hardiness
USDA Zone 5 to 7(?)
Conservation Status
Rated as Least Concern (LC) in the The Red List of Oaks
Nomenclatural Type
Not designated
Illustration of Leaves
Image from a plant at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens (UK) ©Jan De Langhe, Ghent University Botanical Garden, 2010
Synonyms in this Database
Quercus lanuginosa Lam. (1778) nom. illegit.
Quercus austriaca Willd. (1805)
Quercus haliphlaeos Lam. (1785)
Quercus cerris var. austriaca (Willd.) Loudon (1838)
Quercus cerris var. pseudocerris (Boiss.) Boiss. (1879)
Quercus cerris subsp. tournefortii (Willd.) O. Schwarz (1934)
Hybrids in this Database
Quercus ×baenitzii A. Camus (1939)
Quercus ×hispanica Lam. (1785)
Quercus ×schneideri Vierh. (1912)
Quercus ×kewensis Osborn (1931)
Main Horticultural References
The European Garden Flora vol. 3 (1989) page 70
The Hillier Manual of Trees & Shrubs, 7th ed. (2002) page 249
Hortus Third (1976) page 933
(Krüssmann) Manual of Cultivated Broad-leaved Trees & Shrubs (in English) vol. 3 (1986) page 84
(Bailey) Manual of Cultivated Plants 2nd. ed. (1949) page 331
(Jacobson) North American Landscape Trees, (1996) page 549
(Dirr) Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, 5th ed. (1998) page 816
The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening vol. 3 (1992) page 780
The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, 2nd ed. vol. 4 (1956) page 1726
(Bean) Trees & Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 8th ed. vol. 3 (1976) page 467
(Bean) Trees & Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 8th ed. Supplement (1988) page 407
World Economic Plants: a Standard Reference (1999) page 417
Recent Monograph References
(Menitsky) Oaks of Asia (2005) page 111
(Hardÿ & Lamant) Guide illustré des Chênes (2006) Volume 1, page 174
(Heathcoat Amory) The Oaks of Chevithorne Barton (2009) page 60 illustrated page 61 (leaves)