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Cultivated Plants of The Morton Arboretum

DuPage Co., Lisle, IL 60532 USA

FAGACEAE

Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.

(Durmast Oak)

Plant Accession: #35-90*1 seed

Source: Lesny Zaklad Doswiadczalny Arboretum Szkola Glowna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego, Ak. Rosnicza w Warszawie. From seeds wild collected on grounds of Lesny Zaklad Doswiadczalny Arboretum, Poland.

Location: Central Europe: Z-32/78-91

Rounded tree 25 ft tall and 12 ft wide in good condition. DBH: ~23 cm. Trunk bark fissured and gray brown. Twigs light green; previous years smooth and gray-brown. Leaves on tree very dry.

Marlene Hahn, Breane G. Budaitis

#IL-MOR-MH97

May 24, 2012

Phylogeny of the New World oaks: Diversification of an ecologically important clade

across the tropical-temperate divide. (2012-2015 NSF Grant, DEB 114648)

Photographer: Albrecht, William. Publisher: Albrecht, William.