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Quercus oleoides

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Wikipedia Abstract

Quercus oleoides, with Spanish common names encina or encino, is a Mesoamerican species of oak in the beech family. It grows in dry forests and pastureland of eastern and southern Mexico and much of Central America, from Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica north as far as the State of Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico. Its wood is extremely heavy with intercrossed grains; the sapwood is white, and heartwood brown.
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Attributes

Janka Hardness [2]  2010 lbf (912 kgf) Hard
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [2]  0.91
Structure [1]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Rincón de la Vieja National Park II 35068 Costa Rica  
Santa Rosa National Park II 95780 Costa Rica

Predators

Automeris rubrescens[3]
Automeris zugana[3]
Cebus capucinus (white-faced capuchin)[4]
Dichomeris santarosensis[3]
Sciurus variegatoides (variegated squirrel)[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Properties of Imported Tropical Woods, B. FRANCIS KUKACHKA, U.S. Department of Agriculture - Forest Service
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Flexibility in Diets of Three Species of Costa Rican Primates, Colin Chapman, Folia primatol. 49: 90-105 (1987)
♦ 5Sciurus variegatoides, Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 500, pp. 1-6 (1995)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0