Fagaceae
Chinese cork oak
Quercus variabilis
- Family
- Fagaceae
- Genus
- Quercus
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Common names
By language (17)
- Arabic
- سنديان متغير
- arz
- سنديان متغير
- azb
- دَییشکن پالید
- Azerbaijani
- Dəyişkən palıd
- Cantonese
- 栓皮櫟
- Catalan
- Surera de la Xina
- Chinese
- 栓皮栎, 栓皮櫟, 校力, 粗皮青冈, 软木栎, 青杠碗, 塔形栓皮栎
- English
- Chinese cork oak
- French
- Chêne liège de Chine
- German
- Chinesische Korkeiche, Chinesische Kork-Eiche
- Hungarian
- Paráskérgű tölgy
- Icelandic
- Kínakorkeik
- Japanese
- アベマキ, あべまき, コルククヌギ, ワタクヌギ
- Korean
- 굴참나무
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Kinesisk korkeik
- Russian
- Дуб изменчивый
- trv
- Qqri
Synonyms
- Pasania variabilis Regel
- Quercus bungeana F.B.Forbes
- Quercus chinensis Bunge
- Quercus moulei Hance
- Quercus serrata var. chinensis Wenz.
- Quercus variabilis var. megaphylla T.B.Chao
- Quercus variabilis var. pyramidalis T.B.Chao, Z.I.Chang & W.C.Li
- Quercus variabilis var. variabilis
- Quercus variabilis var. zhongtiaoensis D.F.Ke & X.M.Liu
Flowers
- In flower
- March to April (from 17 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: 鄭雪雲, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Manis Lin, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Daderot, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Kim, Hyun-tae, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Daderot, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: りなべる, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Daderot, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.