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Zoysia japonica (commonly known as Korean lawngrass, [1] zoysia grass or Japanese lawngrass) is a species of creeping, mat-forming, short perennial grass that grows by both rhizomes and stolons. [2] [3] It is native to the coastal grasslands of southeast Asia and Indonesia. [4] The United States was first introduced to Z. japonica in 1895.
Quercus tomentella, the island oak, [3] island live oak, [4] or Channel Island oak, [5] is an oak in the section Protobalanus. It is native to six islands: five of the Channel Islands of California and Guadalupe Island , part of Baja California .
The cultivar Zoysia 'Emerald' (Emerald Zoysia), a hybrid between Z. japonica and Z. tenuifolia, [13] is particularly popular. Some types of zoysia are available commercially as sod in some areas. In typical savanna climates with warm wet and dry seasons, such as southern Florida , zoysia grasses grow during the warm-wet summer and are dormant ...
“As you travel, observe what is thriving in the soil types you move through and you will find trees such as black oak, blackjack oak, post oak, Southern red oak (Quercus falcata) and many more ...
Avalon Bay from the north, ca.1900 Avalon Bay around 1910 from the south, before the construction of the Catalina Casino. The sons of Phineas Banning bought the island in 1891 from the Lick estate and established the Santa Catalina Island Company to develop it as a resort. The Banning brothers fulfilled Shatto's dream of making Avalon a resort ...
Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr., commonly known as Manila grass, is a species of mat-forming, perennial grass native to temperate coastal southeastern Asia and northern Australasia, from southern Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Taiwan, and southern China (Guangdong, Hainan) south through Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines to northern Australia (northeast Queensland), and west to the Cocos ...
Quercus lobata, commonly called the valley oak or roble, is the largest of the California oaks. It is endemic to the state, growing in interior valleys and foothills from Siskiyou to San Diego counties. [4] Deciduous, it requires year-round groundwater, [5] [6] and may live up to 600 years.
Faced with an eroding beach, Oak Island wants to pump fresh sand onto its oceanfront. But finding it might mean going a long way offshore. Why Oak Island is looking 18 miles off its coast for sand ...