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Cusi Oak

Quercus albocincta

Cusi Oak
Photo: Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fagaceae (Beech & oak family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
N. Mexico
Climate
subtropical

About

Quercus albocincta is a species of oak tree. It is native to the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico, in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, and Sinaloa. It has also been found in the southernmost part of Baja California Sur.

It is a deciduous tree growing to about 15 metres (49 feet) in height with a trunk 25–50 centimetres (10–19+1⁄2 inches) in diameter. The leaves are stiff and leathery, elliptical or slightly egg-shaped, up to 16 cm (6+1⁄2 in) long, with 3–6 pairs of large bristle-tipped teeth along the edges.

Other Quercus plants

Quercus acatenangensis · Mapleleaf oak · Quercus acherdophylla · Quercus acrodonta · Quercus aculcingensis · Red Wood Evergreen Oak · Quercus acutangula · Quercus acutifolia · Sawtooth oak · Quercus aerea · African Oak · Quercus affinis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Quercus albocincta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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