Quercus acuta, the Japanese evergreen oak, is an oak native to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China's Guizhou and Guangdong provinces. It is placed in subgenus Cerris, section Cyclobalanopsis.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Japanese evergreen oak being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Quercus morii
- Lithocarpus harlandii
- Quercus myrsinifolia
- Litsea coreana
- Lithocarpus taitoensis
- Lithocarpus edulis
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fagales
- Family
- Fagaceae
- Genus
- Quercus
- Species
- Quercus acuta
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