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Quercus meihuashanensis

Quercus meihuashanensis is a little-known evergreen oak tree native to Fujian Province in southeastern China, where it grows on Meihua Mountain. Like most oaks it is grown mainly by specialist collectors and botanic gardens, and it is best treated as a cool-to-warm subtropical tree planted in open, well-drained ground.

Family
Fagaceae (Beech & oak family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, slightly acidic to neutral loam.
Temperature
15–30 °C; protect young plants below about 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
China (Fujian)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Quercus meihuashanensis is a species of oak. It is a tree endemic to Fujian Province in southeastern China.

The species was first described as Cyclobalanopsis meihuashanensis by Qing Fang Zheng in 1979. In 1992 Cheng Chiu Huang placed the species in genus Quercus as Q. meihuashanensis. Some authorities consider it a synonym of Quercus arbutifolia.

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 meihuashanensis 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.

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