''Quercus'' × ''morehus'',Carl B. Wolf, “California Plant Notes I, x Quercus morehus,” Occasional Papers, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden of the Native Plants of California, Volume 1 (Number 1): pages 47-52 (1938) Abram's oak in Kellogg's original descriptionAlbert Kellogg, "On a new species of Oak, brought from Clear Lake by Mr. A. A. Veatch," Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, series 1, volume 2: page 36 (1863) (later called oracle oak by JepsonWillis Linn Jepson, A Manual of the Flowering Plants of California, p. 277 (genus Quercus and some other parts 1923, the rest 1925)), is a named hybrid between the

red oaks ''Red Oaks'' is an American comedy drama television series created by Joe Gangemi and Gregory Jacobs. The first season was released on Amazon Prime Video on October 9, 2015. On December 18, 2015, Amazon announced that the show would be returnin ...

Quercus kelloggii ''Quercus kelloggii'', the California black oak or Kellogg oak, is an oak in the red oak section (genus ''Quercus'', section ''Lobatae'', series ''Agrifoliae'') native to western North America. Description ''Quercus kelloggii'' grows from one ...

'' (California black oak) and ''

Quercus wislizeni ''Quercus wislizeni'', known by the common name interior live oak, is an evergreen oak, highly variable and often shrubby, found in western North America. Description It is a large shrub or tree growing to tall, although where it is common in ...

'' (interior live oak).Online link to The Jepson Manual eFlora = http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?tid=40652 accessed 1 October 2015 Originally published as the unique species ''Quercus morehus'' by Kellogg rather than as the hybrid it is called today this tree is found in the US states of

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and possibly southern

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,Online link to Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria (specimens #1, #4-17, #19-30, #32-34) = http://www.pnwherbaria.org/data/results.php?DisplayAs=WebPage&ExcludeCultivated=Y&GroupBy=ungrouped&SortBy=Year&SortOrder=DESC&SearchAllHerbaria=Y&QueryCount=1&Family1=fagaceae&IncludeSynonyms1=Y&Genus1=quercus&Species1=morehus&Zoom=4&Lat=55&Lng=-135&PolygonCount=0 accessed 1 October 2015 usually where the territories of the purported parents overlap. Because the name ''Q.'' × ''morehus'' was adopted before 1980, while ''Q. wislizeni'' and '' Quercus parvula'' were still considered conspecificKevin C. Nixon and Cornelius H. Muller, “New Names in California Oaks,” Novon, volume 4: pages 391-393 (1994) it is often applied not only to trees appearing intermediate in form between ''Q. kelloggii'' and ''Q. wislizeni'' but also to those that could be ''Q. kelloggii'' × ''Q. parvula''. Pending formal description, the name Q. × ''‘wootteni’'' (Wootten's oak) has been proposed for the California black oak (''Q. kelloggii'') × Shreve oak (''Q. parvula'' var. ''shrevei'') hybrid.Duncan A. Hauser, Al Keuter, John D. McVay, Andrew L. Hipp, and Paul S. Manos, The evolution and diversification of the red oaks of the California Floristic Province (Quercus section Lobatae, series Agrifoliae), American Journal of Botany, October 2017 104:1581-1595 ''Quercus'' × ''morehus'' is a hybrid between a

deciduous In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed Leaf, leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, aft ...

oak and an

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oak. Leaves are generally deciduous or partially deciduous and intermediate in form between ''Q. kelloggii'' and ''Q. wislizeni''.

References

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