Coastal Live Oak - Plant of The Month
网页2024年5月8日 — Coast live oaks are capable of producing several hundred pounds of acorns per year. This availability, hard work and some human ingenuity meant that acorns were a major food source for the indigenous peoples of California.
Coast Live Oak - Calscape
网页The Coast Live Oak flowers each spring and its acorns attract a wide variety of birds and butterflies - over 270 species rely on these trees for habitat and food. With its rich green foliage and unique branching pattern, the Coast Live Oak is a favored choice for both residential and commercial landscapes.
Quercus agrifolia - Wikipedia
网页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 ...
网页Like all oaks, coast live oak is monoecious and wind-pollinated. Acorn cups are composed of thin, flat scales. The one-seeded nuts are 2 to 4 cm long, narrowly conical, and mature in one year. On average, trees have high acorn production once every 2 to 3 years. Flowering takes place from February to April.
Gathering Acorns, A Reliable Harvest Since the Beginning - Bay Nature
网页2013年12月5日 — The valley oak, known as the monarch of California oaks for its large size, produces the largest acorns, and kernels resemble cashews in color and taste with only a slight bitter aftertaste. The coast live oak had yellow and bitter acorn meats.
Coast Live Oak - Nature in Novato
网页2018年10月7日 — Coast live oak leaves are durable and water-retentive and evergreen, but can be eaten by the voracious caterpillars of the California oak moth. These tough leaves are adaptable both to hot, dry locations and to cool, shady spots – but the latter habitat is now being heavily impacted by the introduced Sudden Oak Death pathogen, which spreads ...
Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia and x ganderi) — Oaktopia
网页The coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) is presently native to a narrow band of coastal California from Mendocino southward to northwestern Baja. Coast live oak hybridizes with at least five other related oaks, a family of trees typically …
Tree Spotlight: Coast Live Oak - Canopy
网页2018年10月1日 — The coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) is a large oak tree native to the Pacific Coast of California and is an important tree in California’s cultural landscape. The coast live oak can grow to up to 80 feet tall. Its bark is thick and grows gnarled and deeply fissured as the tree gets older, with twisted and irregular branches.
Coast Live Oak - onceuponawatershed
网页The Coast Live Oak provides food and habitat for many species of mammals and birds, including but not limited to acorn woodpeckers, scrub jays, the oak titmouse, squirrels, woodrats, turkey vultures and many more. Indigenous people depended on the Coast Live Oak for its rich acorns which surpass in flavor and fat most other oak acorns.
Coast Live Oak - Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
网页Coast live oak is the only California native oak that actually thrives in the coastal environment, although it is rare on the immediate shore; it enjoys the mild winter and summer climate afforded by ocean proximity, and it …