Oaks of the World

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  Quercus x capesii
Author W.Wolf 1945 Castanea 10: 91, 120 1945
Synonyms nigra x phellos
Local names
Range New Jersey, South Carolina;
Growth habit tall tree;
Leaves sometimes persistent;
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Fruits

Bark, twigs and
buds

Hardiness zone, habitat prefers moist or wet soils;
Miscellaneous -- Section Lobatae;
-- Usually difficult to recognize with certainty because of similarities of extreme forms of the parent species, especially in the leaves of shoots and juvenile specimens, which are often eccentrically lobed and quite similar in both, and they may sometimes be mistaken for hybrids (Palmer, 1948).

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