roble

roble (ROH-bley) - n., any of several oak trees, especially Quercus lobata of California, also called valley oak; any of several trees having hard durable wood similar to oak, especially Tabebuia rosea of Central America and Nothofagus obliqua of Chile and Argentina.


The word is also the common Spanish name for oak (from Latin rōbur, oak tree), which is how it got applied to a California species. Both the last two species are not really oaks, and are widely cultivated in, for example, cities and parks in climates where they can grow. A painting from 1908 of Quercus lobata:


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