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Quercus cerris L. (Turkey Oak)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #macrophotos
Quercus cerris Tree 2 October 1997 Berks England 6
Quercus cerris Tree 2 October 1997 Berks England 7

Suggested Literature

Quercus cerris may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
FAGACEAE
(forest trees)
Quercus
(oaks)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Quercus cerris:

Photos (live) live is parasitised by Erysiphe alphitoides - Oak Mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
Photos bud (live) live bud is galled by sexual larva Andricus kollari - Oak Marble Gall (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
Photos catkin (male) (live) live catkin (male) is galled by sexual larva Andricus quercuscalicis - Knopper Gall (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
leaf (dead, fallen, rotting) dead, fallen, rotting leaf is decayed by hypophyllous, immersed pseudothecium Mycosphaerella punctiformis - an ascomycete (Mycosphaerellales: Mycosphaerellaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (dead, fallen, rotting, greyed) dead, fallen, rotting, greyed leaf is decayed by amphigenous thyriothecium Microthyrium ilicinum - a fly speck fungus (Microthyriales: Microthyriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf may be infected and damaged by mycelium Phytophthora ramorum - Sudden Oak Death (Causative Organism), Sod (Pythiales: Pythiaceae) UK/Ireland Henricot, B. & Prior, C., 2004 [causes leaf blight]
root (live) live root is ectomycorrhizal host of fruitbody Russula pseudoaeruginea - a brittlegill (Russulales: Russulaceae) UK/Ireland
shoot (live) live shoot may be infected and damaged by mycelium Phytophthora ramorum - Sudden Oak Death (Causative Organism), Sod (Pythiales: Pythiaceae) UK/Ireland Henricot, B. & Prior, C., 2004 [causes shoot blight]
trunk (bleeding, cankered) bleeding, cankered trunk is swollen by mycelium Phytophthora ramorum - Sudden Oak Death (Causative Organism), Sod (Pythiales: Pythiaceae) UK/Ireland Henricot, B. & Prior, C., 2004
trunk (esp. base) (live) live trunk (esp. base) is parasitised by fruitbody Phellinus torulosus - Tufted Bracket (Hymenochaetales: Hymenochaetaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Quercus cerris may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Quercus
(oaks)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Henricot, B. & Prior, C., 2004 Phytophthora ramorum, the cause of sudden oak death or ramorum leaf blight and dieback
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls

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