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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]
The oak woodlands of Southern California and coastal Northern California are dominated by coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia), but also include valley oak , California black oak (Q. kelloggii), canyon live oak (Q. chrysolepis), and other California oaks.
The Encino Oak Tree, also known as the Lang Oak, was a 1,000-year-old California live oak tree, Quercus agrifolia, in the Encino section of Los Angeles, California. It was designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #24) in 1963.
Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) Scrub oak (Quercus dumosa) Southern California black walnut (Juglans californica) California sycamore (Platanus racemosa) Box elder (Acer negundo) Willow (Salix sp.)
California Department of Parks and Recreation Los Osos Oaks State Natural Reserve is a California State Park in western San Luis Obispo County , in the Central Coast of California region. It preserves centuries-old coast live oaks ( Quercus agrifolia ) growing atop relict sand dunes . [ 2 ]
Canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis), Interior live oak (Quercus wislizenii), Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia), Black oak (Q. kelloggii), Oregon oak (Q. garryana) Big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum). Further inland, on north facing slopes or protected canyons, these forests are drier and generally lack tanoak, Douglas fir, and coast redwood.
An Inland Empire city has approved a development project within 450 feet of the third oldest known living organism in the world — a sprawling, shrub-like oak tree that is more than 13,000 years old.
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.