"Babberney" wrote in message
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| On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:34:29 GMT, "Texensis"
| wrote:
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| That having been said, we have several live oak trees and each one
| follows a schedule different from all the others when it comes to
| dropping its leaves in the spring--not that there's not some
overlap,
| but each begins and finishes on its own timetable.
|
|
| You also may be seeing the native live oak (Q. fusiformis) next to
the
| most common transplant from the Deep South (Q. virginiana). The
| native tends to grow more slowly, while the nursery treatment of the
| transplants tends to yield lots of crowded branches clustered near
the
| main trunk, often with very tight crotches (a warning sign for
branch
| failure, BTW).
|
| But certainly it wouldn't be surprising to see two trees of
identical
| species dropping leaves at slightly different times.
|

We have what we've always assumed are native live oaks, certainly here
long before there were houses, and huge. How to count them I'm not
sure, since one is on a motte and multi-trunked (still six, with two
ancient and large stumps), and though we tend to think of it as one
tree others say "trees," plus there's one that springs from a single
very large trunk, although it splits into major vertical uprights.
Needless to say, there's not much sun around here! Neighbors have
similar trees, and the period of greatest intensity of leaf "rain"
is slightly different for each, as are the days of first fall....or so
it seems......same with our pecan trees.