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2. Quercus virginiana - Wikipedia

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   Quercus virginiana, also known as the southern live oak, is an evergreen oak tree endemic to the Southeastern United States. [5] Though many other species are loosely called live oak, the southern live oak is particularly iconic of the Old South. Many very large and old specimens of live oak can be found today in the Deep South region of the ...

3. Quercus fusiformis - Wikipedia

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   Quercus fusiformis (also often referred to as Q. virginiana var. fusiformis ), commonly known as escarpment live oak, plateau live oak, plateau oak, or Texas live oak, is an evergreen or nearly evergreen tree. [2] Its native range includes the Quartz Mountains and Wichita Mountains in southwestern Oklahoma, [3] through Texas, to the Mexican ...

4. California oak woodland - Wikipedia

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   California oak woodland is a plant community found throughout the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of California in the United States and northwestern Baja California in Mexico. Oak woodland is widespread at lower elevations in coastal California; in interior valleys of the Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges; and ...

5. Quercus agrifolia - Wikipedia

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   Quercus agrifolia, the California live oak, or coast live oak, is an evergreen 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.

6. Live oak - Wikipedia

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   According to the Live Oak Society the oldest southern live oak is believed to be the Seven Sisters Oak located in Mandeville, Louisiana with an estimated age of 500–1,000 years. The southern live oak is the official state tree of Georgia. The Seal of Texas includes a live oak branch. A small grove of live oaks on a prairie is known as a mott.

7. Quercus turbinella - Wikipedia

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   Quercus turbinella is a shrub growing 2–5 metres ( – feet) in height but sometimes becoming treelike and exceeding 6 m (20 ft). The branches are gray or brown, the twigs often coated in short woolly fibers when young and becoming scaly with age. The thick, leathery evergreen are up to 3 centimetres ( inches) long by 2 cm ( in) wide and are ...

8. Angel Oak - Wikipedia

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   Angel Oak is an enormous Southern live oak ( Quercus virginiana) located in Angel Oak Park on Johns Island near Charleston, South Carolina. The tree is estimated to be 400–500 years old. [1] It stands 66.5 ft (20 m) tall, measures 28 ft (8.5 m) in circumference, and produces shade that covers 17,200 square feet (1600 m 2 ).

9. Carolinian forest - Wikipedia

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   Carolinian forest. The Carolinian forest refers to a life zone in eastern North America characterized primarily by the predominance of deciduous (broad-leaf) forest. [1] The term "Carolinian", which is most commonly used in Canada, refers to the deciduous forests which span across much of the eastern United States from the North Carolina ...