Quercus dumosa Nutt.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Quercus dumosa' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/quercus/quercus-dumosa/). Accessed 2024-03-18.

Genus

Infraspecifics

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Glossary

acorn
Fruit of Quercus; a single-seeded nut set in a woody cupule.
acute
Sharply pointed.
cordate
Heart-shaped (i.e. with two equal lobes at the base).
cuneate
Wedge-shaped.
dentate
With evenly triangular teeth at the edge. (Cf. crenate teeth rounded; serrate teeth saw-like.)
entire
With an unbroken margin.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
ovoid
Egg-shaped solid.
sessile
Lacking a stem or stalk.
spinose
Spiny.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Quercus dumosa' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/quercus/quercus-dumosa/). Accessed 2024-03-18.

A densely and intricately branched semi-evergreen shrub to about 10 ft high, sometimes a small tree; branchlets downy at first, sometimes persistently so; buds ovoid, acute. Leaves persisting until late in the winter, variable in shape, size and toothing, oblong to roundish, cuneate to cordate at the base, usually not much over 1 in. long, leathery, glabrous and glossy above when mature, downy or tomentose beneath, margins entire or dentate, the teeth when present sometimes spinose; petioles very short. Fruits ripening in their first season, almost sessile; acorns 38 to 114 in. long, ovoid to subcylindric; cups enclosing up to half the acorn, thick-walled, the lower scales tuberculate.

Native of California, mostly in the coastal ranges and on some islands, extending into Mexico. The plants now in cultivation are from an introduction by Messrs Hillier.


Q durata Jeps.

Synonyms
Q. dumosa subsp. durata (Jeps.) A. Camus
Q. dumosa var. bullata Engelm

Another Californian scrub-oak, allied to Q. dumosa, differing in being fully evergreen and in its revolute leaves dull and more persistently downy above. The leaves are very thick and rigid, whence the vernacular name ‘leather oak’. Native of the mountains of California; introduced by Roy Lancaster in 1985.