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olive oak
Quercus oleoides
Quercus oleoides, with Spanish common names encina or encino, is a Mesoamerican species of oak in the white oak group (Quercus sect. Quercus). It grows in dry forests and pastureland of eastern and southern Mexico and much of Central America, from Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica north as far as the State of Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 209986.