Oak

id: oak-206-6291587
title: Oak
text: An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family. They have spirally arranged leaves, often with lobed edges, and a nut called an acorn, borne within a cup. The genus is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere; it includes some 500 species, both deciduous and evergreen. Fossil oaks date back to the Middle Eocene. Molecular phylogeny shows that the genus is divided into Old World and New World clades, but many oak species hybridise freely, making the genus's histo
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description: Tree or shrub in the genus Quercus
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak
date created: 2002-02-18T17:43:51Z
date modified: 2024-09-10T15:19:53Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Quercus_robur.jpg","width":701,"height":948}
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