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Quercus sapotifolia

Quercus sapotifolia
Photo: Gabriele Kothe-Heinrich, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Fagaceae (Beech & oak family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Mexico (Hidalgo to Chiapas) to C. America
Climate
subtropical

About

Quercus sapotifolia is a species of oak. It is native to southern and western Mexico (as far north as Michoacán) as well as Central America. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Where it grows

Quercus sapotifolia ranges through the mountains and foothills of eastern and southern Mexico and through Central America as far as central Panama, between 250 and 2,000 meters elevation.

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 sapotifolia 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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