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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.
Quercus chrysolepis, commonly termed canyon live oak, canyon oak, golden cup oak or maul oak, is a North American species of evergreen oak.Its leaves are a glossy dark green on the upper surface with prominent spines; a further identification arises from the leaves of canyon live oak being geometrically flat.
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]
Southern live oak: Quercus virginiana: 1937 [15] [16] Guam: Ifit (Pacific teak) Intsia bijuga: 1969 [17] Hawaii: Candlenut tree (kukui) Aleurites moluccanus: 1959 [18] Idaho: Western white pine: Pinus monticola: 1935 [19] Illinois: White oak: Quercus alba: 1973 [20] Indiana: Tulip tree: Liriodendron tulipifera: 1931 [21] Iowa: Oak (variety ...
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.
The Big Tree is an estimated 1,000-year-old southern live oak located in Rockport, Texas, the largest live oak in Texas. The Boyington Oak , an approximately 180-year-old southern live oak in Mobile, Alabama , that is known for the folklore surrounding its origin.
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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 ...