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Quercus trojana
Also called Trojan Oak
Quercus trojana is a small to medium oak tree of southeast Europe and western Turkey, grown as an ornamental and valued for tolerating both drought and winter cold. It is a species, and its commonly grown members are well suited to open, sunny sites.
Quercus trojana, the Macedonian oak, is a species of plant in the oak and beech family (Fagaceae). It is native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia, and is placed in the turkey oak section
(Quercus sect. Cerris).
It is grown as an ornamental tree in Britain, Belgium, Spain, and elsewhere, and has proved very tolerant of both drought and winter cold. A semi-fastigiate cultivar 'Iturraran Trinkoa' has been selected at the Iturraran Botanical Garden in the Basque region of Spain.
The species is distributed from southern Italy east across the southern Balkans (Croatia, Albania, Serbia, North Macedonia and Greece) to western Turkey. Its range is disjunct, with its two main centres in the western Balkans and northwest Anatolia. It grows at low to moderate elevations (up to 1,550 metres or 5,090 feet in the south of the range in southwestern Turkey), and prefers warm, dry localities.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Quercus trojana 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.
