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Full Name: - Quercus cerris 'Arnissa'

Quercus cerris 'Arnissa' Jablonski Journ. Int. Oak Soc., 21: 38 (2010) Cultivar name has been accepted as Registered
Infrageneric Classification
Subgenus Cerris, Section Cerris
Etymology
Named by the originator, André Charlier, after the village of Arnissa, situated along the shore of the Vegoriti Lake in Kentriki Makedonia, Greece, at an elevation of 870 metres.
Description
A form selected for its chestnut like large leaves and vigorous growth. Leaves up to 16 × 8 cm, with 4 - 7 acute lobes on each side, base symmetrical attenuate. Petiole 8 - 18 mm. Orginated in 1978 from seed collected in Arnissa, Northern Grece. The 30 year old original plant has reached 15 × 5 m.

Eike Jablonski
Nomenclatural Standard (Cultivar) or Type
Harold Hillier Herbarium HILL, Standard Specimen No. 6804. E. J. Jablonski 08082007, 20 August 2008, collected together with Piers Trehane and André Charlier from the original plant (ortet) at Arboretum Rond Chêne, Esneux, Belgium.