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|image_caption=Foliage and acorns of Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur)
|image_caption=Foliage and acorns of Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur)
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Oak. Plants of the genus Quercus (which see). The word is also applied to other plants to some extent, from resemblances in form of tree, in leaf, or in hardness of wood. In Australia, where there are no species of Quercus, the word oak is applied to the species of Casuarina, "from a fancied resemblance," as Maiden says, "of the wood of casuarinas to that of oak." Other plants in Australia are sometimes known as oaks. The silk oak of florists is Grevillea robusta. The Jerusalem oak is Chenopodium Botrys, probably from the shape of the leaves. Poison oak is Rhus Toxicodendron, and related species.
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:''This article is about oaks (Quercus). For other uses of "Oak" or "Oak tree", see [[Oak (disambiguation)]]''
:''This article is about oaks (Quercus). For other uses of "Oak" or "Oak tree", see [[Oak (disambiguation)]]''
