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The most widespread, grows in more nutritious and moist soils at lower altitudes, grows to a height of 30 m, lives for 500 to 1000 years, light-loving, tolerates a humid environment
Habitus: Trunk curved when young, later erect,, crown irregular, dense, wide, bark initially smooth, olive brown, later cracked, rough and up to 10 cm thick, trunk erect,
Leaf: the leaves are simple sessile, with short petioles, inverted ovate, oblong, wavy, dark green, lobed, heart-shaped at the petiole, the lobes are rounded, at the base with prominent ears, regularly pinnately lobed with 6–8 blunt lobes, shiny on the face, glabrous, pale green on the back, hairy when young, later glabrous.
Flower: blooms in May, buds oval to ovoid, blunt, sometimes pointed, light brown, arranged spirally, male catkins stalked, female flowers in sparse spike-like inflorescence
Fruit: acorns are located in a shallow cup-like calyx, on a long stem, oblong-ellipsoid, 15–30 mm long, young acorns often faintly striped along the length.
Food source for more than 400 species,, completely frost-resistant,
acorns fodder for wild boars
Acorn
“Fastigiata” (columnar), “Concordia” (gold-leaf), “Atropurpurea” (red-leaf)
“Fastigiata” (columnar), “Concordia” (gold-leaf), “Atropurpurea” (red-leaf)
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