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The Los Angeles Times once wrote of the Encino oak, "When the famed Lang oak tree of Encino was but a sapling, the Mayan Empire was crumbling and Vikings were sacking English sea towns." [2] It was already 100 years old when Pope Urban II launched the first Crusade. And when the first Europeans passed through Encino in 1769 as part of the ...
Quercus oleoides, with Spanish common names encina or encino, is a Mesoamerican species of oak in the southern live oaks section of the genus Quercus (section Virentes). [3] It grows in dry forests and pastureland of eastern and southern Mexico and much of Central America , from Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica north as far as the State of ...
Quercus rugosa is an evergreen shrub or tree. [3] The bark is brown and scaly. The leaves are thick and leathery, rarely flat, usually cupped, up to 15 centimetres (6 inches) long, dark green on the top but covered with a thick of reddish-brown hairs on the underside. [4] [5] The young leaves are also very hairy and usually red or yellow ...
Quercus magnoliifolia is a deciduous tree up to 20 metres (66 feet) tall with a trunk as much as 60 centimetres (24 inches) in diameter. The leaves are thick and leathery, up to 22 cm ( 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, widely egg-shaped, with wavy edges or sometimes shallow teeth, green on the top but covered with yellowish hairs on the underside.
Quercus subsericea [2] is a tree species in the beech family Fagaceae.There are no known subspecies. [3] [4] It is placed in subgenus Cerris, section Cyclobalanopsis.[5]This oak species is an emergent tropical forest tree, growing up to 52 m. tall and 0.86 m. dbh [6] and has been recorded from Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines ().
Encino Oak Tree: Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) Los Angeles, California, US 1,000 A 1,000-year-old tree in the Encino district of Los Angeles. It was also known as the Lang Oak. Once described as "the oldest known tree in the city of Los Angeles", it fell on 7 February 1998, due to strong winds from an El Niño storm. Forest King
Quercus durifolia is a small evergreen tree that typically reaches 6 to 9 metres (20 to 30 feet) in height, occasionally growing to 15 meters. [1] Leaves are lanceolate or ovate, glossy and dark-green on the top and tomentose on the underside. The bark is dark gray to black, smooth when young and becoming rough and fissured with age. [2]
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]