Tree

Bark	Leaf
Male Flowers	Female Flowers

Fruit

Height: <35 m, Age: <1000 yr
Ectomycorrhizal
Lacks Persistent Seed Bank
Monoecious, Flowering April - May (Earliest: 25.4)

Protective Chemicals
Triterpenoids	Saponins
Coumarins	Aesculetin, Scopoletin
Ellagitannins	Castalagin, Castalin, Grandinin, Vescalagin
Phenolic Aldehydes	Coniferylaldehyde, Sinapaldehyde, Syringaldehyde, Vanillin
Other Phenolics	Ellagic, Ferulic, Gallic, Salicylic, Syringic, & Vanillic Acids
Polyols	Quercitol

Biotopes:	Hedge Rows	Beech Forest
Pollination:	Wind
Seed Dispersal:	Garrulus glandarius
Mycorrhizae:	Cantharellaceae	Clavulina coralloides	Many Boletaceae	Several Sclerodermataceae
	Paxillus involutus	Many Russulaceae	Many Amanitaceae	Many Cortinariaceae
	Several Entolomataceae	Several Hygrophoraceae	Many Hymenogastraceae	Many Inocybaceae
	Many Tricholomataceae	Laccaria amethystina	Laccaria laccata	Lyophyllum decastes
Parasites:	Oak Virus	Erysiphe alphitoides	Septoria quercicola	Apiognomonia errabunda
	Several Fomitopsidaceae	Aurantiporus fissilis	Cerrena unicolor	Ganoderma applanatum
	Sarcodontia spumea	Sparassis laminosa	Fomitiporia robusta	Inonotus cuticularis
	Pleurotus dryinus	Armillaria mellea	Gymnopus fusipes	Several Gracillariidae
	Several Nepticulidae	Tischeriidae	Incurvaria masculella Larva (Leaf Miner)	Coleophora currucipennella Larva
	Gypsonoma dealbana	Most Cynipidae	Profenusa pygmaea	Dasineura dryophila Larva (Leaf Gall)
	Arnoldiola libera Larva (Leaf Gall)	Several Rhynchitidae	Orchestes pilosus Larva (Leaf Miner)	Trachys minutus
Herbivores:	Cervidae	Favonius quercus Larva	Chimabachidae	Several Drepanidae
	Many Erebidae	Many Geometridae	Several Lasiocampidae	Many Noctuidae
	Nolidae	Many Notodontidae	Several Pyralidae Larvae	Many Tortricidae
	Several Ypsolophidae Larvae	Teleiodes flavimaculella Larva	Teleiodes luculella Larva	Aglia tau Larva
	Carcina quercana Larva	Nematopogon adansoniella Larva	Cossus cossus	Apoda limacodes Larva
	Agrotera nemoralis Larva	Several Tenthredinidae	Arge rustica Larva	Several Chrysomelidae
	Many Curculionidae	Agrilus cyanescens	Melolontha melolontha	Lehmannia marginata
Sapivores:	Acanthosomatidae	Many Cicadellidae	Several Cixiidae	Many Miridae
	Several Pentatomidae	Lachnus roboris	Tuberculatus annulatus	Centrotus cornutus
	Pulvinaria hydrangeae
Xylophages:	Several Buprestidae Larvae (Wood Borers)	Several Cerambycidae Larvae	Several Curculionidae	Ptinus rufipes
	Athous haemorrhoidalis Larva (Roots)	Chyliza leptogaster Larva
Florivores:	Several Miridae	Eupithecia abbreviata Larva	Eupithecia dodoneata Larva
Granivores:	Cervidae	Sus scrofa	Sciurus vulgaris	Several Muridae
	Meles meles	Columba oenas	Columba palumbus	Parus major
	Garrulus glandarius	Pica pica	Sturnus vulgaris	Coccothraustes coccothraustes
	Pyrrhula pyrrhula	Several Tortricidae Larvae	Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale	Miris striatus
	Neolygus viridis	Curculio venosus Larva
Bark Inhabitants:	Several Parmeliaceae	Cladonia coniocraea	Cladonia fimbriata	Physcia adscendens
	Physconia enteroxantha	Carbonicola myrmecina	Chrysothrix candelaris	Mycena erubescens
	Clitocybe metachroa	Hypnum cupressiforme	Orthotrichum affine
Nests: (Cavity)	Dryocopus medius
Wood Decomposers:	Several Mycenaceae	Several Psathyrellaceae	Marasmius cohaerens	Megacollybia platyphylla
	Gymnopus erythropus	Gymnopus fusipes	Armillaria mellea	Schizophyllum commune
	Pholiota tuberculosa	Galerina triscopa	Pluteus brunneoradiatus	Resupinatus urceolatus
	Radulomyces molaris	Stereum gausapatum	Peniophora quercina	Several Auriculariaceae
	Several Dacrymycetaceae	Several Hymenochaetaceae	Several Schizoporaceae	Tremella globispora
	Tremella mesenterica	Vuilleminia comedens	Oxyporus latemarginatus	Several Fomitopsidaceae
	Several Polyporaceae	Ganoderma applanatum	Gloeoporus pannocinctus	Phlebia rufa
	Several Xylariaceae	Cudoniella acicularis	Dasyscyphella nivea	Mollisia ramealis
	Pezicula cinnamomea	Rutstroemia firma	Bulgaria inquinans	Diatrypella quercina
	Bispora antennata	Lonchaea scutellaris Larva	Xylota sylvarum Larva	Pyrochroidae Larvae
	Pyrrhidium sanguineum Larva	Trypodendron signatum	Conopalpus testaceus Larva	Crassa unitella
	Angiosperm Generalists
Leaf Decomposers:	Marasmius cohaerens	Mycena vitilis	Roridomyces roridus	Clitocybe ornamentalis
	Infundibulicybe geotropa	Psathyrella artemisiae	Microthyriaceae	Nectriaceae
	Calycellina punctata	Polyscytalum fecundissimum	Apiognomonia errabunda	Ramularia endophylla
	Camarosporium oreades	Adela reaumurella Larva	Trisateles emortualis Larva	Angiosperm Generalists
Fruit Decomposers:	Hymenoscyphus fructigenus

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Common Oak
Trees for Life: Oak
Galls on English or Pedunculate Oak Quercus robur
Les Galles ou Cécidies du Chêne

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