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Oakey dokey -- show us your native Quercus, Oaks!

DoomsDave

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Howdyall:

Richard Berry (RobustaEnvirons) was nice enough to post pictures of oaks that reminded me of the oaks of my misspent youth, out of a palmy place.

So, today, I went and did a very (very!) brief survey of California oak species, of which there are a lot.

They are fascinating, actually.

And the rest of you, please post nice pictures of your local native (or non-native) Quercus. Oaks.

My next door neighbor has what appears to be a California Live Oak, Q. agrifolia. Look closely, and you can see my palms, to the right, huddled before the potential encroaching monster.

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Some leaves of Q.robur

 

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And an oak at the end of its season 

 

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1 hour ago, Pal Meir said:

Since the Femeiche is even older than me it needs some support:

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PS: This date (2014-07-12) is the correct one.

Wow, a couple of years means nothing to that oak.

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A couple for you

 

 

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On 6/15/2016, 4:33:14, Howeadypsis said:

A couple for you

 

 

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Those look old; bet Robin Hood might have made it with Maid Marian under one or both of them.

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Those look old; bet Robin Hood might have made it with Maid Marian under one or both of them.

The bottom one is quite young. But that first one, yea it's seen some years.  And a lightning strike by the look of it.

 

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Oh, but oaks (Quercus) have a lot of variety.

As I found in my travels.

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Don't know what this species is, but it's pretty.

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LAAZ

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Oh, the oaks are no jokes. Quercus and all.

Y'all.

This don't look like no oak.

Nuh-uh!

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Any idea why it's called Live Oak?

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Our native Q. garryana occupies a very small range, especially where I live along the SE side of Vancouver Island. These are right at home in our rocky free draining soils along side Arbutus menziesii (Madrone). There are some very large old specimen in the area.

Got this as a gift from one of my neighbors. I'll plant it out in the next while.

Cheers, Barrie.

 

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1 hour ago, Howeadypsis said:

Any idea why it's called Live Oak?

Because it is an evergreen oak rather than a deciduous.

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Because it is an evergreen oak rather than a deciduous.

Ah thanks!

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There are still many large examples of this species, even though the Sacramento Valley has been completely converted to agriculture.

The former home of Richard Douglas (deceased, former IPS president) has one at least 2 meters in trunk diameter, in Walnut Creek, Callifornia.

  I used to own a property near Chico, along the Sacramento river watercourse.  There was ample natural regeneration of this fine tree, indeed one had to take care that a sapling did not grow up in an undesirable location!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooker_Oak

 

San Francisco, California

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This doesn't even look like an oak, at all.

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And here's another.

Oak? Well, I guess if it has acorns. Couldn't find any this early in the year.

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And palms and oaks together!

This is my native oak, Quercus coccifera. It is a small tree- bush and grows in the same place than Chamaerops.

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Chamaerops and Oak

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Fantastic Monòver! Id love to grow that as a pot plant. I bet it would work being from Africa. It was once listed as a holly. Can see why!

Also, from Wiki:

The Kermes Oak was historically important as the food plant of the Kermes scale insect, from which a red dye called crimson was obtained

 

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Here is one of the three water oaks at my place. This one is 30 years old. They grow fast and get very large if the get enough water, not a problem in Houston.

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Natural range of Water oak, Quercus nigra

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The pictures of the Angel Oak in SC aren't showing up for me so I'll share a few I took when I visited in 2012.

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A southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) in Norfolk, VA. It had a Trachycarpus seedling growing on it.

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I shared some of these in another thread, but figured I could share them here too.

Quercus virginiana on the dunes in Virginia Beach, VA

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Quercus virginiana festooned with Spanish moss in Virginia Beach, VA

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Overcup oak (Quercus lyrata) in Suffolk, VA. Cat for scale.  Couldn't get a good view of leaves, unfortunately.

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Southern red oak (Quercus falcata) in Suffolk, VA.  The leaves of many oaks, including this one, can be quite variable between juvenile vs adult and sun vs shade leaves.

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