Quercus agrifolia
Evergreen oak tree native to California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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] Coast live oaks may be shrubby, depending on age and growing location, but is generally a medium-sized tree.[6] It grows west of the Sierra Nevada mountain range from Mendocino County, California, south to northern Baja California in Mexico.[7] It is classified in the red oak section of oaks (Quercus sect. Lobatae).[8]
Coast live oak | |
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Coast live oak foliage with new spring growth | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fagales |
Family: | Fagaceae |
Genus: | Quercus |
Subgenus: | Quercus subg. Quercus |
Section: | Quercus sect. Lobatae |
Species: | Q. agrifolia |
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Quercus agrifolia | |
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This species is commonly sympatric with canyon live oak (Q. chrysolepis), and the two may be hard to distinguish because their spinose leaves are superficially similar.