Pendunculate Oak - Quercus robur
Large spreading tree to 45 metres. Leaves oval with rounded lobes, rounded at base with a very short stalk (looking almost stalkless). Bark smooth and silvery brown, becomes rugged and deeply fissured with age. Acorns long stalked. Male and female flowers occur on the same tree. Male flowers are pendulous long slender catkins, yellowish green each flower with 8 to 20 stamens. The female flowers are very small pinkish, and found in the axils of the leaves.1 to 4 surrounded by a close cluster of scales, they develop into the acorns.
Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea) and the hybrid with it (Quercus x rosacea) as well as Turkey Oak (Quercus cerris) are all broadly similar. Pendunculate Oak can be distinguished by having leaves without stalks and acorns on long stalks.
Woods, hedgerows and roadsides.
Flowers: April and May.
Deciduous.
Common throughout Britain, especially in lower areas.
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 573 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Witherley
01 October 2015
stalked acorns & near stalkless leaves
stepgray4
Charnwood Lodge
25 October 2020
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
09 September 2011
acorns
Peter Smith
Cropston Reservoir
17 September 2011
David Nicholls
Burroughs Road, Ratby
31 May 2013
AJ Cann
Cademan Wood
18 November 2017
Bark smooth and silvery
AJ Cann
Launde
24 September 2016
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Species profile
- Common names
- Common Oak, Pedunculate Oak
- Species group:
- Trees, Shrubs & Climbers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Fagales
- Family:
- Fagaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 517
- First record:
- 01/01/1979 (Patricia Evans)
- Last record:
- 04/04/2024 (Smith, Peter)
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egaten
Beacon Hill Country Park
01 September 2021
Saharima Roenisch
Leicester Victoria Park, Eco-area
17 July 2020
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
15 September 2018
acorns with long stalks
David Gould
Mill Lane, Blaby
23 September 2018 Fosse Meadows (taken 8.10.2007).JPG)
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
08 October 2007
acorns
David Perrins
Battram
19 July 2011
English oak - lightning damage?
David Perrins
Battram
19 July 2011
English oak - lightning damage? Lay-by near Old fosse Sapcote SP 5035 9303 (taken 2.5.2008)..JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
02 May 2008
flowers
Graham Calow
Near Claybrooke Parva
04 May 2016
Paul Ruddoch
Melton Country Park
22 May 2015
Cherryl Benyon
Earl Shilton
26 November 2013
Frank Bedford
Ashby de la Zouch, Hicks Lodge
20 August 2021
English Oak
 Fosse Meadows (taken 8.10.2007).JPG)
 Lay-by near Old fosse Sapcote SP 5035 9303 (taken 2.5.2008)..JPG)
Trioza remota
The larvae of Trioza remota cause galls to form on the leaves of English Oak and Sessile Oak. These take the form of a raised pimple on the upper surface of the leaf about 1 to 2 mm across, often several to a leaf. On the underside of the leaf there is a corresponding shallow depression which contains a flat, pale orange-yellow nymph.
Asterodiaspis sp.
Asterodiaspis species are scale insects. 3 species cause a 'pit-gall' on oak twigs: Asterodiaspis quercicola, A minus and A variolosa. They can't be identified from the galls alone. The scale insect creates a small pit in the twig surrounded by a raised rim, c. 2mm across. The scale insects are greenish or brownish, and sit in the middle of the pit.