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Quercus mongolica, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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#1935 most planted

Quercus mongolica

Mongolian oak

14
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
4
cities
8.9 in
median trunk (23 cm, 14 measured)
16 yr
median age (86% have a planting date)

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Quercus mongolica, or Mongolian oak, is a species native to East Asia, including Japan, China, Korea, Mongolia, and Siberia. It can grow up to 30 meters (98 feet) tall. Extrafloral nectaries have been reported on its leaf buds.

Where it grows

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

  1. Boston · United States
    916 yr27 in
  2. Paris · France
    2—2.1 in
  3. Helsinki · Finland
    2—2.0 in
  4. Berlin · Germany
    1—3.8 in

Traits

Mature height
98.4 ft

Trunk diameters across every city: median 8.9 in, mean 21 in, 90th percentile 46 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 Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
  • Central Korean deciduous forests
  • Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
  • Southern Korea evergreen forests

Flooded Grasslands & Savannas

  • Amur meadow steppe

Other Quercus in the catalogue

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

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