Quercus ithaburensis

rdf:langString Quercus ithaburensis

rdf:langString Quercus

rdf:langString Quercus sect. Cerris

rdf:langString ithaburensis

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rdf:langString Quercus aegilops (L., rejected name)

rdf:langString Quercus aegilops subspecies ithaburensis

rdf:langString Quercus aegilops var. ithaburensis

rdf:langString Quercus agriobalanidea (Papaioann.)

rdf:langString Quercus cretica (Bald.)

rdf:langString Quercus echinata (Lam.)

rdf:langString Quercus ehrenbergii (Kotschy)

rdf:langString Quercus graeca (Kotschy)

rdf:langString Quercus hypoleuca (Kotschy ex A.DC.)

rdf:langString Quercus macrolepis (Kotschy)

rdf:langString Quercus macrolepis subspecies ithaburensis

rdf:langString Quercus massana (Ehrenb. ex Wenz.)

rdf:langString Quercus pyrami (Kotschy)

rdf:langString Quercus ungeri (Kotschy)

rdf:langString Quercus vallonea (A.DC.)

rdf:langString Quercus vallonea (Kotschy)

rdf:langString Quercus ventricosa (Koehne)

rdf:langString Quercus ithaburensis, the Mount Tabor oak, is a tree in the beech family. It is found in Southeastern Europe, from southeastern Italy, southern Albania and Greece, and in southwestern Asia from Turkey south through Lebanon, Israel, Syria, and neighboring Jordan, whose national tree it is. Together with Quercus macrolepsis and Quercus brantii, it forms a clade of distinct, closely related species within the oak section Cerris. Quercus ithaburensis is a small to medium-sized semi-evergreen to tardily deciduous tree growing to a maximum height of around 15 metres (49 feet) with a rounded crown and often with a gnarled trunk and branches. The leaves are 4–9 centimetres (1+1⁄2–3+1⁄2 inches) long and 2–5 cm wide, oval in shape, with 7 to 10 pairs of either teeth (most common) or shallow lobes (rare) along a revolute margin. They are dark glossy green above and gray tomentose below. The male flowers are light green 5-cm long catkins while the wind-pollinated female flowers are small, up to 0.4 millimetres (1⁄32 in), produced in threes on short stalks called peduncles. Flowering occurs from March through April in most of its native range. The acorns are generally oval, up to 5 cm long and 3 cm wide with a cap covering roughly one-third of the acorn, maturing in 18 months, dropping from the tree in the second autumn after pollination. The cap is covered in long stiff loose scales which are rolled backwards or involute, especially along the edges of the cap.