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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.
Quercus robur is a deciduous tree up to 40 metres (130 ft) tall, [5] with a single stout trunk that can be as much as 11 m (36 ft) in girth (circumference at breast height) or even 14 m (46 ft) in pollarded specimens. Older trees tend to be pollarded, with boles (the main trunk) 2–3 m (61⁄2 –10 ft) long. These live longer and become more ...
Quercus parvula, the Santa Cruz Island oak, is an evergreen red oak found on north-facing Santa Cruz Island slopes and in the California Coast Ranges from Santa Barbara County north to Mendocino County. It was taxonomically combined with Quercus wislizeni until resurrected as a separate species by Kevin Nixon in 1980. [2]
Description. Quercus berberidifolia grows to 1–2 metres (– ft) tall, rarely to 4 m (13 ft), and has sharply toothed, dull green leaves which are 1.5–3 centimetres (– inches) long and 1–2 cm (–1 in) broad, leathery on their top surfaces and somewhat hairy underneath. The solitary or paired brown acorns are 1–3 cm (–1 in) long and ...
Quercus villariana A.Camus. Quercus tlemcenensis (A. DC.) Trab. Quercus faginea, the Portuguese oak, is a species of oak native to the western Mediterranean region in the Iberian Peninsula. Similar trees in the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa are usually included in this species, or sometimes treated as a distinct species, Quercus tlemcenensis.
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.
California oak woodland. California oak woodland on the east flank of Sonoma Mountain. California oak woodland is a plant community found throughout the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of California in the United States and northwestern Baja California in Mexico. Oak woodland is widespread at lower elevations in coastal California ...