Turkey oak
Quercus cerris
Local namestürk meşesisaçlı palamut
Key identifying features
Acorn cup covered in long, whisker-like, recurved scales
Leaf deeply and irregularly lobed, lobe tips ending in a bristle point
Buds surrounded by persistent thread-like stipules
Tree
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Maximum height
- 35 m
Leaf characteristics
- Leaf arrangement
- Alternate (one by one along the twig)
- Leaf type
- Simple (one piece)
- Leaf margin
- Lobed (finger-like)
- Venation
- Pinnate (from one midrib to the sides)
Flowering
- April
- May
Similar species
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