Tucker Oak, Tucker's Oak Quercus john-tuckeri

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Botanical Name:

Quercus john-tuckeri

Family:

Fagaceae

Genus:

Quercus

Species:

john-tuckeri

Common Name:

Tucker Oak, Tucker's Oak

Height:
20-40 ft
Minimum Hardiness Zone:
6
Harvest hemisphere:
Northern
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Growing Info, follow in order:
Scarification: Soak in water, let stand in water for 24 hours.
Stratification: cold stratify for 60 days , or until radicle emergence.
Germination: sow 1-2" deep, keep moist, mulch the seed bed, can be sown outdoors in the fall for spring germination.
Other: fall sowing in mulched beds is prefered to artificial stratification.
Quercus john-tuckeri is a species of oak known by the common name Tucker oak , or Tucker's oak . Previously known as Quercus turbinella ssp. californica , it was elevated to species status in 1994. [ 1 ] It is endemic to California , where it grows in the chaparral and oak woodlands of mountain slopes in the Transverse Ranges , the southernmost Central Coast Ranges , and the margins of the Mojave Desert . It is a bushy shrub growing 2 to 5 meters in maximum height, sometimes becoming treelike, exceeding six meters. The branches are gray or brown, the twigs coated in short woolly fibers when new and becoming scaly with age. The evergreen leaves are leathery and thick, sometimes brittle. They are gray-green in color, the lower surface slightly paler. The undersides are hairy, the upper surfaces somewhat less so. The leaf blade is roughly oval, spine-toothed, and less than 4 centimeters long. The fruit is an acorn with a thin cap 1 to 1.5 centimeters wide and a nut 2 to 3 centimeters long.
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