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  2. 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.

  3. Quercus geminata - Wikipedia

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    A small- to medium-sized tree, the sand live oak is scrubby and forms thickets. The bark is dark, thick, furrowed, and roughly ridged. The leaves are thick, leathery, and coarsely veined, with extremely revolute margins, giving them the appearance of inverted shallow bowls; their tops dark green, their bottoms dull gray and very tightly tomentose, and their petioles densely pubescent, they are ...

  4. 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.

  5. Deer hunting in a bumper crop year: How to capitalize on ...

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    Deer begin laying down their travel routes to and from the apple and oak trees, long before the fruit and nuts even ripen. On these good years, some trees produce heavy, branch-bending loads ...

  6. Oak - Wikipedia

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    In culture, the oak tree is a symbol of strength and serves as the national tree of many countries. In Indo-European and related religions, the oak is associated with thunder gods. Individual oak trees of cultural significance include the Royal Oak in Britain, the Charter Oak in the United States, and the Guernica Oak in the Basque Country.

  7. Ah, the sounds of autumn in Tallahassee 2024: Ping, crack and ...

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    It seems that every 2-7 years, oak trees, both red and white, produce a heavy “mast” year, a bumper crop, of acorns. Ah, the sounds of autumn in Tallahassee 2024: Ping, crack and crunch Skip ...

  8. Acorn - Wikipedia

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    The pests can infest and consume more than 95% of an oak's acorns. [citation needed] Fires also released the nutrients bound in dead leaves and other plant debris into the soil, thus fertilizing oak trees while clearing the ground to make acorn collection easier.

  9. Quercus turbinella - Wikipedia

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    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.