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Quercus petraea
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Quercus petraea

Quercus petraea, commonly known as the sessile oak, Welsh oak, Cornish oak, Irish oak or durmast oak, is a species of deciduous oak tree native to most of Europe and into Anatolia and Iran. The sessile oak is the national tree of Ireland, and an unofficial emblem in Wales and Cornwall.

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3 branches of this group, most-observed first

sessile oak

speciesQuercus petraea

Quercus aurea

speciesQuercus aurea

Quercus × barnova

hybridQuercus × barnova

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1682258.