Quercus cubana
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Quercus cubana, the Cuban oak, is a medium sized evergreen tree native to Western Cuba in the Cuban pine forests ecoregion
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Some authors believe it is a hybrid between sand live oak (Quercus geminata)
and Quercus oleoides
rather than a true species.
Ecoregion
An ecoregion , sometimes called a bioregion, is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than an ecozone and larger than an ecosystem. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of land or water, and contain characteristic, geographically distinct assemblages of natural...
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Some authors believe it is a hybrid between sand live oak (Quercus geminata)
Quercus geminata
Quercus geminata, commonly called Sand Live Oak, is an evergreen oak tree that is native to parts of the coastal southeastern United States, along the Atlantic Coast from Miami-Dade County, Florida northward to southeastern Virginia and along the Gulf Coast from Florida northward and westward to...
and Quercus oleoides
Quercus oleoides
Quercus oleoides, with Spanish common names encina or encino, is a species of oak in the Fagaceae family. It grows in dry forests and pastureland of lowest North America and of Central America, from Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica to Tamaulipas, Mexico.Quercus oleoides is a slow-growing tree,...
rather than a true species.