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Fagaceae (Chestnut and Oak family) Life
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Eurosid I > Order: Fagales
There are eight genera and about 700 species, widely
distributed but with no native species in sub-Saharan Africa.
Genera naturalised (*) in southern Africa
* Quercus
(oaks) About 350-450 species worldwide,
native to northern temperate and subtropical regions, extending into the
tropics of W Malasia and NW South America. There are about 41 species of
oaks that are cultivated as garden and street trees to southern Africa, of
which one, Quercus robur (English oak), has become naturalised in the
Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
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Other genera, cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002). The species name is provided in
genera that have only one species represented in southern Africa.
Nothofagus (southern beeches)
Six species cultivated in southern Africa.
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Fagus sylvatica (European beech)
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Castanea (chestnuts)
Three species cultivated, including the Castanea sativa
(Sweet chestnut).
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Lithocarpus edulis
Indigenous to Japan.
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