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Southern live oak is cultivated in warmer climates as a specimen tree or for shade in the southern United States (zone 8 and south), Nuevo León and Tamaulipas states in Mexico, and in the warmer parts of the United States, Europe, and Australia. Cultivation is relatively simple, as southern live oak seedlings grow fast with ample soil moisture.
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.
— Toumey oak — # southwest New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, northern Mexico; Quercus tuberculata Liebm. — Mexico; Quercus turbinella Greene — turbinella oak, Arizona Blue Shrub oak, Shrub live oak or scrub live oak — # southwestern North America; Quercus vaseyana Buckley — Vasey oak — # southwestern North America; Quercus verde C ...
Blackjack oak is a smaller species, topping out at about 20-40 feet tall and wide and hardy in Zones 6-9. ... do this and they can grow a 6-foot oak seedling from an acorn in less than one year ...
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 turbinella is a North American species of oak known by the common names shrub oak, turbinella oak, shrub live oak, and gray oak. [4] [5] [6] It is native to Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and Nevada in the western United States. [4] It also occurs in northern Mexico. [7] Arizona shrub oak acorns. Quercus turbinella.
California live oak; coastal live oak Fagaceae (beech family) 801 Quercus alba: white oak Fagaceae (beech family) 802 Quercus arkansana: Arkansas oak Fagaceae (beech family) Quercus austrina: bastard white oak Fagaceae (beech family) Quercus bicolor: swamp white oak Fagaceae (beech family) 804 Quercus brantii: Brant's oak Fagaceae (beech family ...
Quercus chrysolepis, commonly termed canyon live oak, canyon oak, golden cup oak or maul oak, is a North American species of evergreen oak that is found in Mexico and in the western United States, notably in the California Coast Ranges. This tree is often found near creeks and drainage swales growing in moist cool microhabitats. Its leaves are ...