Quercus agrifolia - Wikipedia
WEBQuercus 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 ...
Coast Live Oak - Calscape
WEBThe Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) is an iconic, majestic tree that serves as a cornerstone for wildlife and the surrounding ecosystem. It is easily-recognized by its gnarled branches and grand canopy.
Quercus agrifolia (Coast Live Oak) - Gardenia
WEBA beautiful California native, Quercus agrifolia (Coast Live Oak) is a large evergreen tree adorned with a short, stout trunk and a dense, broadly rounded crown. Its crooked, spreading branches are clothed with leathery, oval, convex, holly-like, dark green leaves, 1-3 in. long (2-7 cm).
Quercus agrifolia - US Forest Service
WEBQuercus agrifolia var. oxyadenia occurs in interior cismontane regions of Baja California and in Riverside, Orange and San Diego counties of California . CalFlora provides a distributional map of coast live oak and its varieties.
Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia and x ganderi) — Oaktopia
WEBThe 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 …
WEBCoast live oak, an evergreen tree 10 to 25 m tall, has a broad, dense crown and widely spreading branches. The lower limbs of ungrazed trees often recline on the ground. Mature bark is gray and shallowly furrowed. Leaves are oblong to oval, 2 to 6 cm in length, cupped, with entire to toothed margins.
Quercus agrifolia coast live oak, encina - Stanford University
WEBMar 2, 2023 — Two species are common on campus and native to it, the evergreen live oak and the deciduous valley oak (Quercus lobata). The word quercus means oak in Latin and survives in Italian as quercia. Agrifolia is a Medieval Latin form of aquifolium, meaning holly (the Italian word for holly is agrifoglio).
Coast Live Oak - Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
WEBQuercus agrifolia, the coast live oak, is a highly variable, often shrubby evergreen oak tree, a type of live oak, native to the California Floristic Province.
Tree Spotlight: Coast Live Oak - Canopy
WEBOct 1, 2018 — 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.
Coastal Live Oak - Quercus agrifolia
WEBMay 8, 2024 — Coastal live oak - Quercus agrifolia is an evergreen (always has leaves) oak - is the most commonly observed oak in our local mountains and namesake of the “oak woodland” community. Without too much trouble you will find it in canyons, near creeks and in the shaded area of nearly every kind of plant community.