Quercus × turneri | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fagales |
Family: | Fagaceae |
Genus: | Quercus |
Species: | Q. × turneri
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Binomial name | |
Quercus × turneri |
Quercus × turneri (or Quercus turneri), known as Turner's oak, is a hybrid species of white oak native to Spain. [2] It is a naturally occurring hybrid of holm oak ( Quercus ilex) and pedunculate oak ( Quercus robur), found where their ranges overlap, but was first described from cultivation. A semi-evergreen tree of small to medium size with a rounded crown, it was originally raised at the Holloway Down Nursery of Spencer Turner, Leyton, Essex, UK, noted by the zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck at Trianon, Versailles in 1783, as the chêne de turnère. [3] (Turner had died in January 1776, and the nursery grounds, on extended lease, returned to the landowner.) [4] An early specimen was planted at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1798; it was uprooted in the Great Storm of 1987 but resettled in the ground and then increased its healthy growth. [5] Its 'Pseudoturneri' cultivar has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [6]
It is an intersectional hybrid. Quercus ilex is placed in subgenus Cerris, Quercus sect. Ilex. Quercus robur is placed in subgenus Quercus, Quercus sect. Quercus. [7]
Synonyms Quercus × hispanica 'Pseudoturneri' Quercus × pseudoturneri
Quercus × turneri | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fagales |
Family: | Fagaceae |
Genus: | Quercus |
Species: | Q. × turneri
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Binomial name | |
Quercus × turneri |
Quercus × turneri (or Quercus turneri), known as Turner's oak, is a hybrid species of white oak native to Spain. [2] It is a naturally occurring hybrid of holm oak ( Quercus ilex) and pedunculate oak ( Quercus robur), found where their ranges overlap, but was first described from cultivation. A semi-evergreen tree of small to medium size with a rounded crown, it was originally raised at the Holloway Down Nursery of Spencer Turner, Leyton, Essex, UK, noted by the zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck at Trianon, Versailles in 1783, as the chêne de turnère. [3] (Turner had died in January 1776, and the nursery grounds, on extended lease, returned to the landowner.) [4] An early specimen was planted at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1798; it was uprooted in the Great Storm of 1987 but resettled in the ground and then increased its healthy growth. [5] Its 'Pseudoturneri' cultivar has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [6]
It is an intersectional hybrid. Quercus ilex is placed in subgenus Cerris, Quercus sect. Ilex. Quercus robur is placed in subgenus Quercus, Quercus sect. Quercus. [7]
Synonyms Quercus × hispanica 'Pseudoturneri' Quercus × pseudoturneri