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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]
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.
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.
Quercus imbricaria at Bayard Cutting Arboretum, Long Island, N.Y. Quercus imbricaria is usually 15–18 meters (49–59 ft) high, maximum height 100 ft, with a broad pyramidal head when young, becoming in old age, broad-topped and open. Trunk up to 1 m (39 in) in diameter (rarely 1.4 m or 56 in). It reaches its largest size in southern Illinois ...
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 ...
Here’s how the humble oak got a cool name. This lovely perennial, purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) grows near the pond’s edge at Charles Hammer’s home. Its Latin name derived from a ...
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 ...
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