When we say king, we obviously mean the Oak tree!

Trees can take various sociological positions in a forest. The Common oak (Quercus robur) may be the predominant, dominant or co-dominant species in the following habitats:

• Fresh mixed broadleaved forests with pine and/or spruce trees; with pine, sessile oak and firs trees,
• Moist mixed broadleaved forests with pine trees,
• Fresh broadleaved forests with beech, fir, spruce and hornbeam trees,
• Moist broadleaved forests with ash trees,
• Riparian forests with ash trees,
• Upland broadleaved forests with sessile oak, beech and fir trees,
• Upland fresh forests with sessile oak, beech and fir trees.

In the list above, the various trees are either dominant or co-dominant species. In these habitats, the oak can also be the admixed species, as in the habitats of moist coniferous, moist mixed coniferous, ash-alder, and as in the Carpathian Mountains, fresh mountain forests. (Zasady hodowli lasu, Tampler et al. 1990.)

The king of the trees plays the most important role in broad leaved, riparian, oak and pine-oak mixed forests. You will definitely spot him there.

Did you know that…

Oak trees grow in the Explorers’ Forest? You will find two species here—the common oak (Quercus robur,) a domestic species, and the red oak (Quercus rubra,) an introduced species from a foreign habitat. Our domestic tree has smaller and more “pinched” leaves. Look out for them!