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Tarahumaran Oak

Quercus tarahumara

Tarahumaran Oak
Photo: Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fagaceae (Beech & oak family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
N. Mexico (NE. Sinaloa, NW. Durango, SE. Sonora, SW. Chihuahua)
Climate
subtropical

About

Quercus tarahumara (also called Tarahumara oak) is a species of oak tree in the beech family. It grows in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango, and Sinaloa. Some of the populations lie within the territory occupied by the Tarahumara people, after whom the species is named. It is placed in Quercus section Lobatae.

Where it grows

Quercus tarahumara is found on the western slopes of the northern Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico. Its range includes the Sierra of southeastern Sonora, southwestern Chihuahua, northeastern Sinaloa, and northwestern Durango states, along with several sky island ranges lying west of the main mass of the Sierra in Sonora and Chihuahua.

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 tarahumara 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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