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Live Oak Questions...
It seems I have two kinds of Live Oaks in my yard. One is just now
gaining foliage, is a bit straighter than the others that are losing leaves. Anyone know other differences or names. Hombre |
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Live Oak Questions...
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 03:26:18 GMT, Hombre
wrote: It seems I have two kinds of Live Oaks in my yard. One is just now gaining foliage, is a bit straighter than the others that are losing leaves. Anyone know other differences or names. _Quercus pungens_ (scrub oak, sandpaper oak) somewhat resembles an upright live oak. |
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"Terry Horton" wrote in message news | On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 03:26:18 GMT, Hombre | wrote: | | It seems I have two kinds of Live Oaks in my yard. One is just now | gaining foliage, is a bit straighter than the others that are losing | leaves. | | Anyone know other differences or names. | | _Quercus pungens_ (scrub oak, sandpaper oak) somewhat resembles an | upright live oak. 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. |
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Live Oak Questions...
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:34:29 GMT, "Texensis"
wrote: "Terry Horton" wrote in message news | On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 03:26:18 GMT, Hombre | wrote: | | It seems I have two kinds of Live Oaks in my yard. One is just now | gaining foliage, is a bit straighter than the others that are losing | leaves. | | Anyone know other differences or names. | | _Quercus pungens_ (scrub oak, sandpaper oak) somewhat resembles an | upright live oak. 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. Keith For more info about the International Society of Arboriculture, please visit http://www2.champaign.isa-arbor.com/. For consumer info about tree care, visit http://www2.champaign.isa-arbor.com/.../consumer.html |
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Live Oak Questions...
"Babberney" wrote in message news:84DA38A88E49F693.A29BBD8A0942227A.8836CD9129E .... | On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:34:29 GMT, "Texensis" | wrote: | snip| | 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. |
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