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[frankleigh]

Missing one as usual if anyone can help

44a Another name for the Valley Oak or California White Oak, Quercus lobata (5)
O - b - e

I've tried about 10 Googles, and nothing new is coming up.

[swehttam]

I think it is Roble, French hairdresser Friseur

[jane mark 2]

ROBLE is a name used for these trees

[frankleigh]

Thank you swehttam and jane mark 2.

It doesn't help that I got 42d wrong I suppose, but if Roble had come up on the Google searches, I could at least have checked my wrong answer!

Thanks again.

[flamingo97]

Quercus lobata Valley Oak, White Oak, Swamp Oak, Roble Oak ...
Quercus lobata . Valley Oak, White Oak, Swamp Oak, Roble Oak, California White Oak.
www.laspilitas.com/plants/562.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

This is from the third hit on the first page when searcging google for 'quercus lobata".

[frankleigh]

Thanks flamingo97 - that was the first "google" I tried as well - don't know how I could have missed that !

[SirJ]

Coincidentally I think ROBLE is the Spanish for oak - at least when I read it on the back of Spanish wine bottles which talk about the wine having been matured in "barriques de roble".

I had "crimper" for 42d which at least gave me the right initial letter for roble!