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Quercus macranthera, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
(c) Felix Riegel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · CC BY-NC
#1596 most planted

Quercus macranthera

Caucasian oak · also Persian oak

Deciduous
28
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
7
cities
3.1 in
median trunk (8 cm, 21 measured)
5.4 yr
median age (57% have a planting date)

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Quercus macranthera, also known as Caucasian or Persian oak, is a deciduous tree native to Western Asia. It can grow up to 30 meters tall and is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental tree in Europe.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Paris · France
    10—3.8 in
  2. Boston · United States
    85.4 yr1.1 in
  3. Amsterdam · Netherlands
    517 yr11 in
  4. Vancouver · Canada
    2—23 in
  5. Berlin · Germany
    1—9.1 in
  6. Copenhagen · Denmark
    1——
  7. Helsinki · Finland
    1—2.0 in

Traits

Foliage
Deciduous
Mature height
98.4 ft
Blooms
Mar, Apr, May

Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.1 in, mean 6.6 in, 90th percentile 16 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Conifer Forests

  • Elburz Range forest steppe
  • Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Caucasus mixed forests

Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub

  • Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests

Deserts & Xeric Shrublands

  • South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert

Other Quercus in the catalogue

74 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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