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Full Name: - Quercus myrsinifolia

Quercus myrsinifolia Blume (1851)
Infrageneric Classification
Subgenus Cerris, Section Cyclobalanopsis
Common Names in this Database
Nomenclature Note
Sometimes spelled "myrsinaefolia" which is incorrect: see ICBN Art. 60.8.
Description
See: Huang Chengjiu et al.., Volume 4 of Flora of China (1999) Page 398 as Cyclobalanopsis
See: H. Ohba, Volume 2a of Iwatsuke et al., (eds.) Flora of Japan (2006) Page 53
Natural Distribution
FAR EAST ASIA: CHINA: (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang) ,KOREA, JAPAN: (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu), SOUTH EAST ASIA: LAOS, N THAILAND, VIETNAM
Hardiness
USDA Zone 7 to 9
Illustration of Leaves
Image from a plant at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens (UK) ©Jan De Langhe, Ghent University Botanical Garden, 2009
Main Horticultural References
The European Garden Flora vol. 3 (1989) page 67
The Hillier Manual of Trees & Shrubs, 7th ed. (2002) page 253
Hortus Third (1976) page 935
(Krüssmann) Manual of Cultivated Broad-leaved Trees & Shrubs (in English) vol. 3 (1986) page 98
(Rehder) Manual of Cultivated Trees and Shrubs, 2nd ed. (1940) page 155 as "Q. myrsinaefolia"
(Jacobson) North American Landscape Trees, (1996) page 556 as "Q. myrsinaefolia"
(Dirr) Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, 5th ed. (1998) page 823
The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening vol. 3 (1992) page 785
The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, 2nd ed. vol. 4 (1956) page 1729
(Bean) Trees & Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 8th ed. vol. 3 (1976) page 497
(Bean) Trees & Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 8th ed. Supplement (1988) page 413
Recent Monograph References
(Menitsky) Oaks of Asia (2005) page 259 combines with Q. glauca subsp. glauca
(Hard˙ & Lamant) Guide illustré des Chęnes (2006) Volume 1, page 600
(Heathcoat Amory) The Oaks of Chevithorne Barton (2009) page 136 illustrated (leaves, tree)