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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]
California physician and botanist (and one of the founding fathers of the California Academy of Sciences) Albert Kellogg described an oak in an 1855 publication as Quercus arcoglandis (spur acorn oak), [8] apparently the same species as Q. wislizeni. This clearly predates French-Swiss botanist de Candolle's 1864 name, and if confirmed to be ...
Quercus chrysolepis, commonly termed canyon live oak, canyon oak, golden cup oak or maul oak, is a North American species of evergreen oak.Its leaves are a glossy dark green on the upper surface with prominent spines; a further identification arises from the leaves of canyon live oak being geometrically flat.
Quercus turbinella Greene — turbinella oak, Arizona Blue Shrub oak, Shrub live oak or scrub live oak — # southwestern North America; Quercus vaseyana Buckley — Vasey oak — # southwestern North America; Quercus verde C.H.Mull. — Mexico; Quercus vicentensis Trel. — El Salvador, Guatemala, and southern Mexico; Quercus vulcanica Boiss.
Live oak was widely used in early American butt shipbuilding.Because of the trees' short height and low-hanging branches, lumber from live oaks was used in curved parts of the frame, such as knee braces (single-piece, L-shaped braces that spring inward from the side and support the deck), in which the grain runs perpendicular to structural stress, making for exceptional strength.
Quercus turbinella is a North American species of oak known by the common names shrub oak, turbinella oak, shrub live oak, and gray oak. [4] [5] [6] It is native to Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and Nevada in the western United States. [4] It also occurs in northern Mexico. [7] Arizona shrub oak acorns. Quercus turbinella.
California's oldest tree, a Palmer's oak thought to be 13,000 to 18,000 years old, may be threatened by a proposed development, environmentalists say.
The California black oak is a critical species for wildlife. Oaks (Quercus spp.) may be the single most important genus used by wildlife for food and cover in California forests and rangelands, [8] and California black oak occupies more total area in California than any other hardwood species. Livestock also make heavy use of this species for ...