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  oak flowers - Cherrybark Oak flowersBrief summary of Oak flowersScientific nam
Coast live oaks is considered a very important resource in california.
The coast live oak flowers appear in spring and are small yellowish-brown flowers.
The female oak flowers are surrounded by the numerous overlapping scales, or "bracts," which afterwards form the cup.
www.oakflowers.com /oak_flowers.html   (252 words)

  
  CA DFG Lands - Crestridge Ecological Reserve: Focal Habitats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Coast live oak woodland typically occurs on steep, north-facing slopes and shaded ravines or along raised stream banks and terraces, where it forms open to relatively closed canopy stands dominated by coast live oak (Holland 1986; Sawyer and Keeler-Wolf 1995).
Coast live oak woodland on Crestridge corresponds to the CNDDB coast live oak woodland association (71.060.19).
Oak woodlands are considered regionally sensitive, however, because of their limited acreage, high wildlife value, gradual loss to development, and lack of recruitment.
www.dfg.ca.gov /lands/er/region5/crestridge/crestridge-habitats.html   (2852 words)

  
 Plant Information Center - NC Trees - Live Oak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Live oak is found from southeastern Virginia through the lower Coastal Plain of North Carolina and southward, but it is plentiful only south of Cape Hatteras.
Live oak leaves are quite small (2 to 5 inches long), oval with rounded ends and have margins that are mostly smooth but may be slightly toothed.
Live oak acorns are a dependable and highly desirable food for a wide variety of wildlife.
www.ibiblio.org /pic/NCTrees/liveoak.htm   (261 words)

  
 coastliveoakwoodland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Because of the heterogeneity of the habitats on these hillsides, the coastal live oak woodlands integrate with grassland in the valley and with coastal scrub and chaparral (on steep slopes with rocky, gravelly, dry soils).
Coast live oaks are also a common to dominant component of the riparian woodland community along Brizziolari Creek.
The overstory of the coast live oak woodland in Poly Canyon is mostly composed of a dark, evergreen canopy of mature coast live oak trees.
www.calpoly.edu /~bio/Faculty/Holland/Polycnyn/oakwdlnd.htm   (657 words)

  
 Quercus agrifolia, COAST LIVE OAK, ENCINA
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.' The prefix 'agri' refers to a field (as in agriculture).
The coast live oak is in vogue for landscaping, being perhaps the most popular single species of large tree at Stanford.
trees.stanford.edu /ENCYC/QUEagr.htm   (455 words)

  
 IMPORTANCE OF OAK AMBROSIA BEETLES IN PREDISPOSING COAST LIVE OAK TREES TO WOOD DECAY Journal of Arboriculture - Find ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
When the stems of coast live oak trees break, dense egg galleries of oak ambrosia beetles are often found deep in the sapwood, together with extensive early wood decay adjacent to such galleries.
Six coast live oaks near park trails were dying or dead and had to be removed, and the stems of eight trees broke in the forest some distance from park trails.
The presence of the SOD pathogen was confirmed on live sampled coast live oaks in laboratories at the University of California Davis and the California State Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4107/is_200411/ai_n9464314   (864 words)

  
 Quercus -- Oak Notes
The innumerable old coast live oaks of the Palo Alto area are all about the same age, which suggests that they descend from survivors of a previous generation that suffered a catastrophe long ago.
The savanna of coast live oaks, valley oaks, and blue oaks supported by the Stanford foothills has been under study since the 1980s by David Schrom and Joan Schwan of Magic, Inc., in collaboration with Stanford and with the participation of community residents.
The coast live oak is represented on the seal of the City of Menlo Park.
trees.stanford.edu /ENCYC/QUERCUS.htm   (1202 words)

  
 General Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Coast Live Oak is an evergreen native to the California Coast.
Coast live oaks often exceed 250 years in age.
The name Quercus agrifolia (Coast Live Oak), quer- meaning "fine" and cuez- meaning "tree," and agrifolia meaing "live foliage" is the hybridized Latin and Celtic word for the oak genus.
www.elkhornslough.org /andrewway/general_information.htm   (103 words)

  
 Los Osos Oaks - California State Parks of the San Luis Obispo Coast
The larger coast live oaks are located where the soil is moister.
Poison oak can be found throughout the state reserve.
90 acre grove of dwarfed, 800-year-old coast live oaks on an ancient dune habitat.
www.slostateparks.com /los_osos_oaks   (574 words)

  
 California Forest Stewardship Program
Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) woodland is an underutilized, rapidly diminishing resource containing many values beyond its aesthetic tranquility and wildlife habitat.
The ³Coast Live Oak Thinning Study in the Central Coast of California —Twelve Year Results² is the third report published on this long-term study and extends our knowledge about the effects of thinning in coast live oak stands to a 12-year period.
Analysis was conducted on the number of stems per acre, basal area per acre, total volume, wood volume, sawlog volume, tree movement by diameter class, economics, predicting incomes and rates from sustained thinning, economic considerations based on forage, wildlife and aesthetics, changes in the forage layer in the thinned plots, and analysis of regeneration.
ceres.ca.gov /foreststeward/html/oakmanage.html   (1245 words)

  
 Champion Trees
Live oaks are often planted in cities, but should be restricted to large yards or parks where their wide-spreading form can be accomodated.
Live oak is usually grows in association with several other hardwoods, including winter oak, laurel oak, sweetgum, southern magnolia, and American holly.
A fast-growing tree, the live oak flowers in early spring (usually in March or April), and the acorns mature in September or October.
www.championtrees.org /champions/oaktexaslive.htm   (448 words)

  
 Sod Symposium - Dodd
Elsewhere in northern California, morphology of coast live oak can be highly variable (particularly foliar form) and this has commonly been attributed to “noise” from a polymorphic species belonging to a genus reknowned for its variability.
The northernmost populations of coast live oak, including hybrid populations at Hopland and Yorkville are characterized by a single haplotype.
This suggests that coast live oak has colonized this region through pollen hybridizing with interior live oak, followed by generations of backcrossing to “regenerate” the coast live oak morphotype.
cnr.berkeley.edu /forestry/sodsymposium/abstracts/4DoddAbstract.html   (519 words)

  
 Coast Live Oak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The flowers are produced in early to mid spring; the male flowers are pendulous catkins 5-10 cm long, the female flowers inconspicuous, less than 0.5 cm long, with 1-3 clustered together.
The name Quercus agrifolia literally means "field-leaved oak", and is generally thought to be an error by the describing botanist for "aquifolia", "holly-leaved".
The California Oak Moth caterpillar subsists entirely on living and fallen leaves of the Coast Live Oak.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coast_Live_Oak   (948 words)

  
 Marin CNPS - Junior Botanist Study Kit - Trees - Live Oak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Live oak trees get their names because they look "alive," are not deciduous and are green all year.
There are actually two species of live oak in Marin, the coast live oak and the canyon live oak.
Oaks woodlands are in trouble in California due to development, dams preventing the floods which reduced the numbers of gophers and other predators of acorns and seedlings, invasion of weeds like French broom which out-compete oak seedlings, and ranching (A cow can eat 1800 acorns a day, not to mention trampling on oak seedlings.)
www.marin.cc.ca.us /cnps/LiveOak.html   (196 words)

  
 Quercus agrifolia(Coast Live Oak) and Quercus dumosa(scrub oak) are probably the most common oaks in California cities.
Coast Live Oak- Quercus agrifolia - with shiny, evergreen prickly leaves, that are usually rolled under.
Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) acorns vary from short fat stubby ones that seem to be all cap, into the monsters shown here.
Quercus x chasei is a natural hybrid of Coast Live Oak (Q. agrifolia) with Black Oak (Q. kelloggii) that occurs from Monterey to Santa Clara counties.
www.laspilitas.com /groups/oaks/california_oak1.html   (974 words)

  
 The California Coast Ranges
In the north Coast Range the fog drip is responsible for the Coastal Redwoods.
The Coast Ranges are the result of subduction of the Pacific plate beneath the western border of North America.
Coast Ranges are folded and faulted on an axis that parallels the coastline.
www.sonoma.edu /users/c/cannon/bio314chapter7coastranges.html   (6801 words)

  
 Southern coast live oak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Southern coast live oak is by far the least common of the two varieties of Quercus agrifolia.
While the more common coast live oak has leaves that are mostly glabrous below with tufts of golden-brown hairs in the vein axils and may have scattered hairs elsewhere, this variant has leaves that are densely tomentose with felty stellate hairs covering the entire lower surface.
Southern coast live oak occupies generally granitic soils from 2000' to 4500' in interior cismontane Riverside and San Diego Counties, blooming from March to April.
www.calflora.net /bloomingplants/southerncoastliveoak.html   (250 words)

  
 Gulf Coast Land Trust Rebuilds Live Oak Legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Many of the Live Oaks in this area are over 400 years old, can reach one hundred feet in height and spread, and “have a huge emotional value for people in this community,” she explains.
Though many of the resilient Live Oaks withstood the wind and rain that was strong enough to topple houses across the coast, storm surges caused erosion to the trbees, exposing their roots and depositing salt around their bases.
The Live Oak Rescue Mission began in late November, involving volunteers flushing the roots with freshwater and providing soil, mulch and protective fencing for over 500 trees.
www.lta.org /regionallta/se_ms_success.htm   (603 words)

  
 Quercus agrifolia Coast Live Oak
Coast Live Oak is a picturesque tree and are good bird plants.
Coast Live Oak is a food plant for the beautiful California Sister butterfly.
If you live in an area where SOD occurs, be very aggressive with your weed control, limit as many human inputs as possible near the tree.
www.laspilitas.com /plants/552.htm   (933 words)

  
 New Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Coast Live Oak Woodland is the most mesic of all Oak Woodlands.
Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) is often the only tree species present, with a canopy that ranges from a slightly open canopy to a dense canopy.
In the communities where an ecotone forms between grassland and oak woodland, the understory is dominated by grasses and forbes.
www.sonic.net /~scds/teachers/stettler/oakpaper.htm   (240 words)

  
 Live oak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Live oak or evergreen oak is a general term for a number of unrelated oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that happen to share the character of evergreen foliage.
Live oak was widely used in early American shipbuilding; the remarkable resilience of the live oak planking versus its European counterpart in part made the early American frigates so feared by enemy sailors.
The live oak of USS Constitution repelled the shot of HMS Guerriere so effectively that one of her sailors was heard to shout, "Huzzah!
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Live_oak   (616 words)

  
 Coast Live Oak
Beech Family (Fagaceae) This family of 6 genera and hundreds of species includes important hardwood trees such as beeches, tanbark oaks, oaks, and chestnuts.
At least four of these native oaks were moved in the course of construction: One (still alive) was moved 1925-26 to make way for the North Wing, one (still alive) was moved in 1946 to make way for an addition to the South Wing, and at least one was moved on the Main Terrace.
They should never have the grade level lowered or raised between the trunk and drip line, nor should they be watered in the summer within 4 feet of the trunk.
www.hearstcastle.org /behind_scenes/plants/coast_live_oak.asp   (225 words)

  
 More Mesa - Coast Live Oak
Coast Live Oak is commonly found in coastal ranges and foothills, from central to southern California.
Coast Live Oak has separate male catkins and female flowers on the same tree, and which appear for a short period in spring.
The dark green leaves are holly-like and have a distinctive fuzz on the underside.
www.moremesa.org /mesa_np_oak.htm   (194 words)

  
 Walnut Creek Open Space Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
They are the Blue Oak, the Valley Oak, and the Coast Live Oak.
The other two oaks are deciduous, dropping their leaves late in the year.
The Blue Oak leaves have a slightly bluish caste to them, the leaves are smaller than the Valley Oaks and the bark has smaller vertical striations in it.
www.wcosf.org /articles/oaks.shtml   (161 words)

  
 Oak Habitat, Tecolote
These two species of trees are the cornerstones of two distinct ecosystems- the Valley Oak Savannah and the Coast Live Oak Woodland- and are an integral and essential part of the county's environment and landscape.
In contrast, the Coast Live Oaks form dense woodlands in the stepper and less sunny regions along the coasts from the Bay Area into Baja California.
Mitigation (10 oak seedlings for each 200 year old oak) can not recoup the loss of habitat that the numerous species depend on for their survival and reproductive success.
www.rain.org /~audubon/sbaskisner.html   (1219 words)

  
 Phytophthora canker (sudden oak death) failure coast live oak
We catalogued failures in coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) in natural stands at six locations in Marin County, California.
Among recent failures (2001-2002), 39% of the bole failures and 30% of the scaffold failures occurred in live stems.
Failures in live and dead trees were largely influenced by the same factors.
phytosphere.com /publications/Phytophthora_failurel2003.htm   (618 words)

  
 HomeSurfer.com - Find reports on local Real Estate Market Conditions
This is a sharp decline from August of 2005.
Live Oak is about like Lake City is as to the market goes.
The sales in Live Oak has cool down some (to what it was in 2005), but th...
www.homesurfer.com /marketreports   (2935 words)

  
 Discover the Spectacular Engelmann Oak
Most oaks we see on the coastal plain of Southern California are the trademark Coast Live Oak (quercus agrifolia).
The Coast Live Oak is an impressive tree, but the majesty of the Engelmann can take your breath away.
Engelmann Oaks are probably the most imperiled of all tree oaks and are one of the most endangered natural plant communities in California.
www.arroyoseco.org /eoak.htm   (353 words)

  
 How to Identify An Engelmann Oak
Because most everyone is Southern California is familiar with the Coast Live Oak, the other great oak of our region, we have contrasted the features of the Engelmann Oak with that tree.
The Coast Live Oak is dense and orderly.
Engelmanns are sometimes hard to definitively identify because they hybridize with other oak species, but with a bit of study you will quickly develop a feel for the great trees.
www.arroyoseco.org /identifyengelmann.htm   (246 words)

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