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  2. Quercus fusiformis - Wikipedia

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    Escarpment live oak is typically found on dry sites, unlike southern live oak, which prefers moister conditions. The tree, especially the Quartz Mountains variety, is generally accepted to be the hardiest evergreen oak, able to withstand very cold winters with minimal leaf burn in areas as cold as USDA zone 6a. For this reason the tree has ...

  3. Quercus pumila - Wikipedia

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    Quercus pumila, the runner oak [4] or running oak, [5] is a species of oak. It is native to the southeastern United States (Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas). [4] [6] Quercus pumila is a deciduous shrub usually less than one meter (3 feet 3 inches) tall. The bark is gray or dark brown.

  4. Quercus virginiana - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Live oak - Wikipedia

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    Live oak was widely used in early American butt shipbuilding.Because of the trees' short height and low-hanging branches, lumber from live oaks was used in curved parts of the frame, such as knee braces (single-piece, L-shaped braces that spring inward from the side and support the deck), in which the grain runs perpendicular to structural stress, making for exceptional strength.

  6. Quercus wislizeni - Wikipedia

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    The interior live oak is a red oak (section Lobatae) in the California Floristic Province (series Agrifoliae). Q. wislizeni hybridizes with California black oak (Q. kelloggii) (= Quercus × morehus, Abram's oak). All California red oaks show evidence of introgression and/or hybridization with one another.

  7. Quercus muehlenbergii - Wikipedia

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    Chinquapin oak is usually a tree, but occasionally shrubby, while dwarf chinquapin oak is a low-growing, clone-forming shrub. The two species generally occur in different habitats: chinquapin oak is typically found on calcareous soils and rocky slopes, while dwarf chinquapin oak is usually found on acidic substrates , primarily sand or sandy ...

  8. Quercus gambelii - Wikipedia

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    Quercus gambelii, with the common name Gambel oak, is a deciduous small tree or large shrub that is widespread in the foothills and lower mountains of western North America. It is also regionally called scrub oak , oak brush , and white oak .

  9. Tamaulipan mezquital - Wikipedia

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    The Bordas Escarpment transects this ecoregion, running from near the southern limit northwest to the vicinity of Rio Grande City, Texas, arching back northeast to the vicinity of Choke Canyon Reservoir in Texas. The region east of the Bordas Escarpment is flat with deep, sandy soils, of which vast areas both north and south of the border have ...