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Quercus pubescens, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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#818 most planted

Quercus pubescens

Downy oak · also Pubescent oak, Italian oak

426
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
6
cities
5.6 in
median trunk (14 cm, 307 measured)

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Quercus pubescens, also known as downy oak or Italian oak, is a white oak species native to southern Europe and southwest Asia. Its native range extends from northern Spain and France eastward to Turkey and the Caucasus.

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
    363—5.6 in
  2. Amsterdam · Netherlands
    584.8 yr30 in
  3. Copenhagen · Denmark
    2——
  4. London · United Kingdom
    1——
  5. Vancouver · Canada
    1—24 in
  6. Berlin · Germany
    1—9.4 in

Native range

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

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Caucasus mixed forests
  • Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests

Temperate Conifer Forests

  • Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests

Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub

  • Northeast Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests

Other Quercus in the catalogue

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

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