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Quercus affinis is a medium-sized evergreen oak from the mountains of eastern Mexico, growing up to 16 to 20 m tall with glossy, laurel-like leaves. It has earned the RHS Award of Garden Merit and is best suited to cool-subtropical gardens with well-drained soil.
Quercus affinis is a species of oak native only to Mexico, mostly to the Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests.
It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Quercus affinis ranges through the mountains of eastern Mexico, between 1200 and 2600 meters elevation. Its range includes the Sierra Madre Oriental of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Hidalgo, and Veracruz states, the eastern Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt of Veracruz and Puebla, and the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca of Puebla and Oaxaca, with some outlying populations in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero.
Coast Live Oak · White Oak · Golden Oak · Scrub oak · Brant's oak · Turkey Oak · Canyon Live Oak · Scarlet Oak · Daimyo oak · Blue oak · Leather oak · Northern pin oak
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Quercus affinis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
