Muller Oak Quercus cornelius-mulleri

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Botanical Name:

Quercus cornelius-mulleri

Family:

Fagaceae

Genus:

Quercus

Species:

cornelius-mulleri

Common Name:

Muller Oak

Height:
8-10 feet
Minimum Hardiness Zone:
7

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Growing Info, follow in order:
Scarification: Soak in water, let stand in water for 24 hours.
Stratification: cold stratify for 90 days, or until radicle emergence.
Germination: sow 1" deep, tamp the soil, mulch the seed bed.
In a Nutshell:
* Quercus cornelius-mulleri is a North American species of oak known by the common name Muller oak, or Muller's oak. It was described to science in 1981 when it was segregated from the Quercus dumosa complex and found to warrant species status of its own. It was named after the ecologist Cornelius Herman Muller.
* It is native to southern California and Baja California, where it grows in chaparral, oak woodlands, and other habitat in foothills and mountains.
* It can most easily be observed in Joshua Tree National Park and in the woodlands along the western margins of the Colorado Desert in San Diego County, California.
* Quercus cornelius-mulleri is a bushy shrub not exceeding 3 meters (10 feet) in height. It is densely branched, its tangled twigs gray, brown, or yellowish, fuzzy when new and becoming scaly with age. more...
* Quercus cornelius-mulleri is a bushy shrub not exceeding 3 meters (10 feet) in height. It is densely branched, its tangled twigs gray, brown, or yellowish, fuzzy when new and becoming scaly with age.