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The leaves are 8–20 centimetres (3 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 7 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches) long and 3–6 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) wide, with 14–20 small saw-tooth-like triangular lobes on each side, with teeth of very regular shape. [3] The flowers are wind-pollinated catkins.
In 1993, The Jepson Manual estimated that California was home to 4,693 native species and 1,169 native subspecies or varieties, including 1,416 endemic species. A 2001 study by the California Native Plant Society estimated 6,300 native plants.
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]
But Jeff Perry, who knows fallen trees, told me that the greatest L.A. tree of all once stood on what is now Commercial Street at the 101 Freeway, not a half-mile from Angel City Lumber, which ...
Other coniferous trees, such as white fir, bigcone Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga macrocarpa), incense cedar, and western juniper also thrive here. Canyon live oak, California black oak, and Pacific dogwood are other trees that also grow here. The forest contains an estimated 87,400 acres (354 km 2) of old growth.
It is an evergreen tree growing to 30 metres (98 feet) tall with a trunk up to 90 centimetres (35 inches) in diameter. [3] The largest recorded tree is in Mendocino County, California, and measured (as of 1997) 33 m (108 ft) in height with a 36 m (119 ft) spread. [4]
[15] Ultimately, the city opted to plant five new trees where the Encino oak had grown—three California sycamores and two coast live oaks. The city also unveiled an 8-by-6-foot (2.4 m × 1.8 m) oval slice of the tree in an April 1999 ribbon-cutting ceremony. [8] [16] [17]
The city has chosen six iconic areas where it will continue to maintain the trees. Palms have a long history in LA, believed to have first been brought by 18th century franciscan missionaries. But ...