Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 douglasii, known as blue oak, is a species of oak endemic to California, common in the Coast Ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. [4] It is California's most drought-tolerant deciduous oak, [5] and is a dominant species in the blue oak woodland ecosystem. It is occasionally known as mountain oak and iron oak. [6] [7]
California oak woodland occurs in moist areas usually up to 4,900 feet (1,500 m). [6] [5]: 387 These woodlands include oak species, such as coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia), canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis), and Engelmann's oak (Quercus engelmannii).
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.
Oregon oak woodland is found in Northern California's Klamath-Siskiyou, Northern Coast Ranges, and southern Cascade Range.These woodlands are composed primarily of Oregon oak (Q. garryana), interior live oak (Q. wislizeni), and coast live oak, together with California black oak, canyon live oak, blue oak, Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii), California bay (Umbellularia californica), incense ...
5 minutes could get you up to $2M in life insurance ... Pasadena and many cities in Southern California, has laws protecting oak trees. Despite this, McCalmont's insurance company is standing firm ...
The Jurupa Oak, or Hurungna Oak, [1] [2] is a clonal colony of Quercus palmeri (Palmer's oak) trees in the Jurupa Mountains in Crestmore Heights, Riverside County, California. The colony has survived an estimated 13,000 years through clonal reproduction, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] making it one of the world's oldest living trees . [ 5 ]
A family in San Carlos, California, is facing an impossible decision: spend more than $40,000 to remove a nearly 500-year-old heritage white oak tree in their backyard or find new homeowners ...