Full Name Report From The Oak ICRA Checklist

Report from the Oak ICRA checklist

Full Name: - Quercus austrina

Quercus austrina Small (1903)

Infrageneric Classification

Subgenus Quercus, section Quercus (the white oaks)

Common Names in this Database

Bluff Oak

Description

See: Nixon, Volume 3 of Flora of North America (1997) Page 498

Natural Distribution

USA: (Alabama, Florida, Georgia (US), Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)

Conservation Status

Rated as Least Concern (LC) in the The Red List of Oaks

Illustration of Leaves
	Image from a plant at The National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Meise) ©Jan De Langhe, Ghent University Botanical Garden, 2010

Main Horticultural References

(Grimshaw & Bayton) New Trees (2009) page 709

(Krüssmann) Manual of Cultivated Broad-leaved Trees & Shrubs (in English) vol. 3 (1986) page 82

The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening vol. 3 (1992) page 779

Recent Monograph References

(Hardÿ & Lamant) Guide illustré des Chênes (2006) Volume 2, page 28

Oak Collections Growing this Taxon

Arboretum des Pouyouleix (France)

Chevithorne Barton (UK National Collection®)

Search the Plantcol database for gardens in Belgium growing this taxon, or for a full list of accepted oak names in that database, press here.

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