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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 ...
The most common trees are California bay laurel and coast live oak. Other species are buckeye, big leaf maple, canyon live oak, black oak and scrub oak. The latter, with its mistletoe, seems to prefer the ridgetop habitat at the end of Chamise Trail. [1]
California live oak (Quercus agrifolia) canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis) Chihuahua oak (Quercus chihuahuensis) cusi (Quercus albocincta) Davis Mountain oak (Quercus depressipes) Emory oak (Quercus emoryi) encino asta (Quercus subspathulata) gray oak (Quercus grisea) handbasin oak (Quercus tarahumara) Mexican blue oak (Quercus oblongifolia)
Oak Glen Preserve is a nature preserve owned and managed by The Wildlands Conservancy, a nonprofit land conservancy. Covering 909 acres (3.68 km 2 ) in San Bernardino County, California , it is located in the western foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains .
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.
At mid-elevations sugar pine, incense-cedar, white fir and Jeffrey pine join Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, and canyon live oak, while the other pines and oaks drop out of the mix. Huckleberry oak, shrub tanoak, greenleaf and pinemat manzanitas, and bush chinquapin, are important understory components.
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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.