{"id":12627,"date":"2020-11-10T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/quercus-coccifera-l\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:57:45","slug":"quercus-coccifera-l","status":"publish","type":"species","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/quercus-coccifera-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Quercus coccifera L."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evergreen shrub or tree, monoecious. Frequently shrubby and highly branched from the base, tangled, reaching up to 20 m in height as a tree. Trunk with ashen and smooth bark, brown-blackish and slightly fissured in older tree specimens. Shape of the tree is similar to that of <em>Quercus rotundifolia<\/em>, with which it has sometimes been confused. Leaves [1.5-6 (13) \u00d7 0.8-3.5(7) cm], alternate, perennial, coriaceous, oblong to elliptic or obovate, usually dentate-spiny, but not prickly or even without teeth, with entire margin in good soil, shade and moisture conditions, deep green, bright, \u00b1 the same on both sides, almost concolourous, when adult glabrous or slightly glabrescent, pubescent on the underside. Male flowers minute, arranged in catkins about 5 cm long, yellowish. Female flowers borne singly or grouped in 2-3 on the leaf axils. Fruit (the acorn) an elongated-ovoid achene, with a dark chestnut-brown nut, surrounded at the base by a cupule covered in tiny scales, imbricated, ovate-lanceolate, applied on the base and protruding, rigid and prickly on the upper and middle parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12627","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Quercus coccifera L. - North Africa Trees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quercus coccifera L. - North Africa Trees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Evergreen shrub or tree, monoecious. 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