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Pronunciation: KWER-kus ak-YOO-ti-dens
Common name: Torrey's scrub oak
Family: Fagaceae (Oak)
Habitat: Chaparral and woodland slopes to about 5000' or so in the Peninsular Range from southern Riverside County through interior San Diego County
Blooming period: February to May
Name derivations: 1) Quercus 2) acutidens
NOTE: Torrey's scrub oak, often and perhaps properly considered as a hybrid species of engelmannii and cornelius-mulleri, is here treated as a pure taxon, following the analysis of Tom Chester which may be examined here. He says: "The hybrid nature of this taxon has only been speculation, and has never been proven by actual production of any plant by crossing the supposed parents."