The effects of seed coat and environment temperature on the germination of Quercus wutaishanica seeds under different temperatures (10℃,15℃,20℃,25℃,30℃,and 35℃ respectively) controlled by the artificial climate incubator were investigated.The results showed that significant effects of both seed coat and environment temperature were detected (p<0.01) on germination percentage (GP), coefficient of rate of germination (CRG), germination index (GI) and vigor index (VI) of the seeds.Significant interaction effects between coat and temperature on three other germination parameters except GI were also observed (p<0.05).Seed coat played an obvious role of inhibition in seed germination and coat removal significantly increased GP,GI and VI (p<0.01) and accelerated germination timing.It was found that uncoated seeds had higher GP,95.0% and 95.6% at temperature of 15℃ and 20℃,respectively, and lower GP,27.5% at 35℃.CRG fluctuated with the elevation of temperature and maximized at 20℃.The temperature of 15℃ resulted in maximum of both GI and VI (0.89 and 570.0, respectively) while they declined with continuous increasing of the temperature and minimums of GI and VI were detected at 35℃(0.2 and 155.3,respectively).The GP of the seeds with capsules were 0 at both 30℃ and 35℃,and only 12.2% at 25℃.With the elevation of temperature,CRG maximized (4 038.24) when seeds were incubated at 20℃ and declined largely at 25℃.Maximums of GI and VI were observed at 10℃ and they decreased when the temperature declined, while the minimum of GI was detected at 20℃.