Quercus robur
(common oak)

Preferred Common Name

• common oak

Other Scientific Names

• Quercus brutia Ten.
• Quercus estremadurensis O. Schwarz
• Quercus pedunculata Ehrh.
• Quercus pedunculiflora K. Koch
• Quercus rosacea

International Common Names

• English: English oak; European oak; pedunculate oak
• Spanish: quejigo; roble comun; roble fresnal
• French: châgne; chêne à grappes; chêne blanc; chêne femelle; chêne male; chêne noir; chêne pédonculé; gravelin; rouvre
• Russian: chereshchatiï; dub letniï

Local Common Names

• Germany: früheiche; Sommer- Eiche; sommereiche; Stiel- Eiche; Stieleiche
• Italy: farnia; quercia gentile; quercia rovere
• Netherlands: steeleik; zommereik
• Poland: dab szypulkowy
• Sweden: europeisk ek; skogsek; sommarek

EPPO code

• QUEPD (Quercus pedunculiflora)
• QUERO (Quercus robur)

Subspecies

• Quercus robur subsp. brutia
• Quercus robur subsp. pedunculiflora

Trade name

• black oak

• Domain: Eukaryota
•     Kingdom: Plantae
•         Phylum: Spermatophyta
•             Subphylum: Angiospermae
•                 Class: Dicotyledonae
•                     Order: Fagales
•                         Family: Fagaceae
•                             Genus: Quercus
•                                 Species: Quercus robur

Major host of:

Acer rufinerve (grey snake-bark maple); Agrilus sulcicollis; Apiognomonia errabunda (anthracnose); Armillaria mellea (armillaria root rot); Botryosphaeria stevensii (Botryosphaeria disease, grapevine); Brenneria goodwinii; Cossus cossus (carpenter moth); Lymantria dispar (gypsy moth); Lymantria monacha (nun moth); Melolontha melolontha (white grub cockchafer); Ophiostoma piceae (vascular mycosis of oak); Phytophthora plurivora; Scolytus intricatus (European oak bark beetle); Thaumetopoea processionea (oak processionary moth); Tortrix viridana (green oak leaf-roller); Xylosandrus germanus (black timber bark beetle)

Minor host of:

Apiognomonia veneta (sycamore anthracnose); Aporia crataegi (black-veined white); Armillaria ostoyae (armillaria root rot); Botryosphaeria parva; Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris (yellow disease phytoplasmas); Corythucha arcuata (oak lace bug); Cydia splendana (chestnut tortrix moth); Diplodia seriata (grapevine trunk disease); Erysiphe quercicola; Eulecanium tiliae (nut scale); Euproctis chrysorrhoea (brown-tail moth); Euwallacea fornicatus (polyphagous shot-hole borer); Halyomorpha halys (brown marmorated stink bug); Heterobasidion annosum; Hylobius abietis (large pine weevil); Malacosoma neustria (common lackey); Neofusicoccum australe; Neofusicoccum luteum; Operophtera brumata (winter moth); Orgyia antiqua (European tussock moth); Phylacteophaga froggatti (leafblister sawfly); Phytophthora cambivora (root rot of forest trees); Phytophthora cinnamomi (Phytophthora dieback); Phytophthora kernoviae; Polygonum aviculare (prostrate knotweed); Saturnia pavonia (small emperor moth); Tischeria ekebladella; Verticillium dahliae (verticillium wilt)

Wild host of:

Fomitopsis pinicola (brown crumbly rot); Xyleborinus saxesenii (fruit-tree pinhole borer); Xyleborus dispar (pear blight beetle)

Host of (source - data mining):

Alebra albostriella; Aleimma loeflingiana; Alternaria alternata (alternaria leaf spot); Altica quercetorum; Andricus kollari (marble gall wasp); Andricus lignicola; Andricus quercuscalicis (oak knopper gall); Anoplophora chinensis (black and white citrus longhorn); Antheraea pernyi; Antheraea yamamai (silk moth, Japanese); Archips crataeganus; Archips podanus (great brown twist moth); Archips rosana (European leaf roller); Archips xylosteanus (apple, leafroller); Armillaria gallica; Armillaria tabescens (armillaria root rot); Asterodiaspis quercicola (golden oak scale); Biscogniauxia mediterranea (charcoal disease); Cerambyx cerdo (capricorn beetle, great); Ceratocystis fagacearum (oak wilt); Cladosporium macrocarpum; Collybia fusipes; Colpoma quercinum; Curculio elephas (chestnut weevil); Curculio glandium (acorn weevil); Cydia fagiglandana (beech seed moth); Cynips divisa; Diadegma anurum; Diaporthe leipheimia; Diurnea fagella; Ennomos quercinaria; Erannis defoliaria (mottled umber moth); Erysiphe alphitoides (powdery mildew of oak); Gypsonoma dealbana; Haematonectria haematococca (dry rot of potato); Lachnus roboris; Leiopus nebulosus; Melolontha hippocastani (cockchafer); Neuroterus quercusbaccarum; Orientus ishidae (mosaic leafhopper); Periclista lineolata; Pezicula cinnamomea; Phalera bucephala (buff tip moth); Phyllobius calcaratus (glaucous leaf weevil); Phyllobius maculicornis (apple leaf weevil); Phyllobius pyri (common leaf weevil); Phyllonorycter hamadryadella (solitary oak leafminer); Phylloxera quercus; Phytophthora (foot rot); Phytophthora citricola (black hop root rot); Phytophthora gonapodyides; Phytophthora quercina; Phytophthora ramorum (Sudden Oak Death (SOD)); Pityohyphantes phrygianus; Plagionotus arcuatus; Platypus quercivorus (oak ambrosia beetle); Ptycholoma lecheanum; Saperda scalaris; Saprolegnia; Sclerotinia pseudotuberosa (rot: acorn); Stigmella atricapitella; Strophosomus capitatus; Trogoxylon impressum; Trypodendron domesticum; Tuberculatus annulatus; Xiphydria longicollis; Xylosandrus compactus (shot-hole borer)