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Quercus glandulifera | |
Author | Blume 1850 Mus. Bot. 1: 295 |
Synonyms | canescens Bl. 1851 griffithii var. glandulifera Franch. 1899 glandulifera var. brevipetioleata (A.DC) Nakai 1924 serrata Thunb. 1784 serrata var. brevipetioleata (A.DC) Nakai 1926 urticifolia Bl. 1851 urticifolia var. brevipetioleata A.DC 1864 |
Local names | "Iodame" ;
ko-nara ; |
Range | Japan; Korea; China; Taiwan; West Himalaya; 0 to 3000 m; introduced in Europe in 1893; |
Growth habit | 12-15 m (sometimes to 25 m); much smaller in cultivation; rounded crown; |
Leaves | 6-12 x 2.5-6 cm; semi-evergreen; oboval elliptic; short glandular teeth curved toward apex; shiny green above, paler beneath with long, simple, silky hairs hiding stellate hairs; 9-14 pairs of secondary veins; petiole 0.3-3 cm long; |
Flowers | |
Fruits | acorn ovate or ellipsoid, 1.8-2 cm long, 0.6-1.2 cm in diameter; mucronate, brown, hairless; short stalk, sometimes sessile; halfround cup 1-1.5 cm in diameter, enclosing only base of nut or to 1/3, with oval lanceolate, appressed scales; |
Bark, twigs and |
bark grey, vertically fissured; young shoot hairless; |
Hardiness zone, habitat | hardy; all types of soils; slow growing; |
Miscellaneous | -- Sub-genus Quercus, Section
Quercus, Series Roburoid; -- A. Camus : n° 142 ; -- Today, is considered as synonym of Q.serrata, but for Sargent (in Forest Flora of Japan, 1894), one must dinstinguish Q.serrata and Q.glandulifera. |
Subspecies and varieties |
-- numerous varieties; -- variety brevipetiolata (petiole 3-5 cm long) is found essentially in China, rarely in Japan; |
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