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Quercus alba - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Botanical Garden Hohenheim, Germany; 9/2010 © Jörn Germer

Quercus alba - Upper and lower surface of dry leaves - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of dry leaves; Leverett Station, MA, USA; 11/2005 © Sonja Germer

Quercus alba - Foliage - Click to enlarge!

Foliage; Falmouth, MA, USA; 7/2003 © Christopher Neill

Quercus alba - Bark - Click to enlarge!

Bark; Leverett Station, MA, USA; 11/2005 © Sonja Germer

Quercus alba - Bark - Click to enlarge!

Bark; Botanical Garden Hohenheim, Germany; 9/2010 © Jörn Germer

Quercus alba - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Leverett Station, MA, USA; 11/2005 © Sonja Germer

Quercus alba - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Botanical Garden Hohenheim, Germany; 9/2010 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 238
Date of entry: 28.12.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: White Oak

German: Weiß-Eiche

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Fagales (32)

        Family: Fagaceae (23)(family description)

          Genus: Quercus (16)

            Epithet: alba L. (6)

Synonyms: Quercus candida Steud., Quercus nigrescens Raf., Quercus ramosa Dippel, Quercus retusa Raf.

alba => white

nigrescens => turning black, become blackish

ramosa => having many branches

retusa => blunted, with a slight notch at a rounded apex

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

External links

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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