Quercus × eplingii C.H.Mull.

California

20-30 m; open spreading crown;

3-5 x 5-8 cm., deciduous, ovate, obtuse at apex and at base or attenuate at base, margins rather deeply incised forming 3-4 rounded or mucronately tipped rounded lobes on each side, sinuses usually narrower then lobes; upper surface dark bluish-green, sparsely stellate-hairy, lower surface light green, densely stellate-hairy; petioles 5-8 mm. long, stellate-hairy.

cups resembling those of Q. garryana.

acidic, rich, deep soils; withstands warm and dry climates;

– Section Quercus; – Discovered in 1935; – Quite rare; – Ressembles more Q. garryana , but with a blue foliage