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Quercus cerris (Turkey oak)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons >  Core Eudicots >  Rosids >  Eurosid I > Order: Fagales >  Family: Fagaceae > Genus: Quercus

Quercus cerris (Turkey oak), Company Gardens, Cape Town. [photo H. Robertson, Iziko ©]

 

Native to Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. Cultivated as a roadside, park and garden tree in southern Africa.

 


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