Brief Summary
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Quercus carmenensis is a species of oak endemic to the Pine-oak forests of Mexico and the Southwestern USA. This tree occurs only at moderately high elevations in a band between approximately 5000 to 6500 feet in elevation.
Known by the common name Mexican oak, this small tree is deciduous and manifests light gray colored bark that is checkered or furrowed. Twigs are frequently a pronounced red, sparsely stellate-pubescent, somewhat glabrescent. The buds display as a light brownish in color and are almost circular. The leaf has a petiole usually reddish and one half to one cm thinnish to rather leathery, with a base cuneate to rounded, and leaf margis normally shallowly and irregularly lobed.
