Torrey's Scrub Oak (Quercus x acuditens)

 9/12/10 Waterline Road, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve,

Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA

9/12/10 Waterline Road, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve,

Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA

3/24 17 Campsite before Dripping Springs trailhead, Agua Tibia Wilderness,
Cleveland National Forest, Riverside County, CA

12/30/18 Manzanita Trail, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, 

Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA 

 12/30/18 Manzanita Trail, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, 

Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA 

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Torrey's Scrub Oak

SPECIES: Quercus x acuditens

FAMILY: Fagaceae (Oak Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 9/12/10

LOCATION: Waterline Road, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA

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Treatment from Jepson eFlora:

Native

Habit: Shrub to small tree 5--6(10) m, evergreen. 

Leaf: 2--6 cm; petiole 3--7 mm; blade generally oblong to obovate, +- leathery, adaxially shiny green to dull blue-green, abaxially +- densely puberulent, glabrous in age, dull, pale green, tip obtuse to short-toothed, margin entire, dentate, or wavy-dentate. 

Fruit: cup 10--18 mm wide, 6--9 mm deep, bowl-shaped, scales +- tubercled; nut 20--25 mm, oblong to ovoid, distally acute, shell glabrous inside; mature in year 1. 

Ecology: Slopes, chaparral, woodland; 

Elevation: < 1720 m. 

Bioregional Distribution: PR. 

Flowering Time: Feb--May 

Note: Hybrids involving Quercus cornelius-mulleri, Quercus engelmannii, considered sp. by Torrey.