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  Quercus x eplingii
Author Cornelius H. Muller 1938. Further studies in Southwestern Oaks, 1938, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 19: p. 585
Synonyms douglasii x garryana
Local names
Range California
Growth habit
Leaves 3-5 x 5-8 cm., deciduous, ovate, obtuse at apex and at base or attenuate at base, margins rather deeply incised forming 3-4 rounded or mucronately tipped rounded lobes on each side, sinuses usually narrower then lobes; upper surface dark bluish-green, sparsely stellate-hairy, lower surface light green, densely stellate-hairy; petioles 5-8 mm. long, stellate-hairy.
Flowers
Fruits cups resembling those of Q. garryana.

Bark, twigs and
buds

twigs slender (2-3 mm), sparsely stellate-hairy, reddish-brown with prominent lenticels.
Hardiness zone, habitat
Miscellaneous -- Section Quercus;
-- Discovered in 1935
Subspecies and
varieties
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