aesculus

Flora Eur. 53

sessile oak, chestnut oak, durmast oak

Quercus petraea (Mattuschka) Lieblein

Winter Eiche, Stein Eiche

chêne noir, chêne rouvre

rovere, quercia vera, eschio

G. 1.8 (Chaoniam pingui glandem); see also quercus

G. 2.15-16

G. 2.67 (Chaoniique patris glandes); see also quercus

G. 2.291-92

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The names for the different oaks could be used indifferently in various authors, but aesculus is the tree of Jupiter, and robur (when used specifically of a tree) is Quercus robur. Vergil uses robur only to mean 'timber' or 'log'. The primary difference is that the acorns of the sissile oak have no stems and are attached directly to the stems (see picture). Maggiuli (1995, 219) suggests Q. frainetto (Italian oak), but this smaller type scarcely matches Vergil's description of size.

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