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Quercus agrifolia, the California live oak, [3] or coast live oak, is an evergreen [4] live oak native to the California Floristic Province.Live oaks are so-called because they keep living leaves on the tree all year, adding young leaves and shedding dead leaves simultaneously rather than dropping dead leaves en masse in the autumn like a true deciduous tree. [5]
Styles short, acorns mature in 18 months, very bitter, inside of acorn shell woolly. [citation needed] Quercus cedrosensis — Cedros Island oak — # California + Baja California. Quercus chrysolepis — canyon live oak — # southwestern North America. Quercus palmeri — Palmer oak — # California, western Arizona.
Location of Encino Oak Tree in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Encino Oak Tree, also known as the Lang Oak, was a 1,000-year-old California live oak tree, Quercus agrifolia, in the Encino section of Los Angeles, California. It was designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #24) in 1963.
Los Osos Oaks State Natural Reserve is a California State Park in western San Luis Obispo County, in the Central Coast of California region. It preserves centuries-old coast live oaks (Quercus agrifolia) growing atop relict sand dunes. [2] It is located in the Los Osos Valley between San Luis Obispo and Baywood Park-Los Osos, just outside the ...
Live oak. Live oak or evergreen oak is any of a number of oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that share the characteristic of evergreen foliage. [1] These oaks are generally not more closely related to each other than they are to other oaks. [1] When the term live oak is used in a specific rather than general sense, it most ...
Quercus virginiana, also known as the southern live oak, is an evergreen oak tree endemic to the Southeastern United States. [5] Though many other species are loosely called live oak, the southern live oak is particularly iconic of the Old South. Many very large and old specimens of live oak can be found today in the Deep South region of the ...
Quercus sect. Lobatae. Species: Q. phellos. Binomial name. Quercus phellos. L. Quercus phellos, the willow oak, is a North American species of a deciduous tree in the red oak group of oaks. It is native to the south-central and eastern United States.
Quercus parvula is theoretically capable of hybridizing with all of the other California red oaks except the higher elevation southern California Quercus agrifolia var. oxyadenia [10] (sharpacorn oak) [11] from which it is separated by the Transverse Ranges.