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Sand laurel oak grows on dry sandy soils, while swamp laurel oak grows on flood plains, river bottoms, and occasionally poorly drained upland soils. Sand laurel oak has narrow ovate or elliptic leaves, while swamp laurel oak has rhombic or broad ovate leaves. Sand laurel oak has an acute leaf apex and a rounded or obtuse (blunt, >90°) leaf ...
Laurel oak may refer to two species of trees native to the southeastern United States: . Quercus hemisphaerica, sometimes called sand laurel oak or Darlington oak; Quercus laurifolia, sometimes called swamp laurel oak, diamond-leaf oak, obtusa oak, or water oak
Quercus laurifolia is a tree growing to 20–24 meters (65–80 feet) (rarely to 40 m or 130 ft) tall, with a large, circular crown. The leaves are broad lanceolate, 2.5–12.7 centimeters (1–5 inches) long and 1.3–4.4 cm (1 ⁄ 2 – 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) broad, and unlobed (very rarely three-lobed) with an entire margin and a bristle tip; they typically fall just as the new leaves start to ...
camphor tree; camphor laurel Lauraceae (laurel family) 858 Cinnamomum verum: cinnamon tree Lauraceae (laurel family) Laurus: true laurels; Laurus nobilis: poet's laurel; sweet bay laurel Lauraceae (laurel family) Licaria: licaria trees; Licaria triandra: Florida licaria Lauraceae (laurel family) Nectandra: nectandra trees; Nectandra coriacea ...
– California black oak – California, southwestern Oregon; Quercus laevis Walter – turkey oak – southeastern North America; Quercus laurifolia Michx. – laurel oak – # southeastern North America; Quercus laurina Bonpl. – # Mexico; Quercus marilandica (L.) Münchh. – blackjack oak – eastern North America; Quercus mcvaughii Spellenb.
During the Miocene, oak-laurel forests were found in Central and Southern California. Typical tree species included oaks ancestral to present-day California oaks, as well as an assemblage of trees from the Laurel family, including Nectandra, Ocotea, Persea, and Umbellularia.
Quercus imbricaria, the shingle oak, is a deciduous tree in the red oak group of oaks. ... which are shaped like laurel leaves, 8–20 cm (3–8 in) ...
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.
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