Explore: Pyrenean Oak

Quercus pyrenaica, also known as Pyrenean oak, or Spanish oak is a tree native to southwestern Europe and northwestern North Africa. Despite its common

these oak forests are replaced by Pyrenean oak. The land on which these oaks stood is the most altered, as it is well suited to meadows and crops. Oaks are

components are ballota oak (Quercus rotundifolia) and cork oak (Quercus suber), but Portuguese oak (Quercus faginea) and Pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica)

establishes the native forest species (common oak, sessile oak, Pyrenean oak, holly, holm oak, Portuguese oak, cork oak, beech, chestnut, ash, maple, linden,

above 1200 meters. Further down, the Pyrenean oak can be found, and in the lower area there are patches of holm oak. On the banks of the rivers there are

An oak apple or oak gall is a large, round, vaguely apple-like gall commonly found on many species of oak. Oak apples range in size from 2 to 4 centimetres

the cork oak grows together with the holm oaks (Quercus ilex, Quercus rotundifolia), the Portuguese oak (Quercus faginea), the Pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica)

the earlier harvests of Pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica) and Portuguese or gall oak (Quercus lusitanica), and the late cork oak (Quercus suber) season

oak or pungens oak – southwestern U.S., Mexico Quercus purulhana Trel. – Mexico, Central America Quercus pyrenaica Willd. – Pyrenean oak – southwestern

holm oak dehesas and low-lying plains. The slopes of the Guadarrama mountain range are cloaked in dense forests of Scots pine and Pyrenean oak. The Lozoya