coast live oaks (Q. agrifolia) are another attractive species in the Red Oak group. I first encountered these two years ago in December on the way from Pasadena to San Francisco. I took a number of pictures at Los Osos Oaks State Reserve in the San Luis Obispo area. Later that day we went to Paso Robles and sampled the local wines. Tough day!
As someone who knew absolutely nothing about California oaks before this trip in 2008, I had a hard time at first with all the evergreen oaks. This one looks superficially like canyon oak but the bark is even smoother and it doesn't look like it's made up of a bunch of strips. It also has the vertical stripes going up the bark that I often associate with the Red Oaks of the East.
My wife (Ellen), mom (Gabriele) and dad (Virgil) appear in the following images with the coast live oaks of Los Osos Oaks State Reserve.
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From: doug bidlack [mailto:dougbidl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 6:42 PM
To: wnts@googlegroups.com; entstrees@googlegroups.com
Subject: [WNTS] California Oaks / Coast Live Oak #1
ENTS,
coast live oaks (Q. agrifolia) are another attractive species in the Red Oak
group. I first encountered these two years ago in December on the way from
Pasadena to San Francisco. I took a number of pictures at Los Osos Oaks
State Reserve in the San Luis Obispo area. Later that day we went to Paso
Robles and sampled the local wines. Tough day!
As someone who knew absolutely nothing about California oaks before this
trip in 2008, I had a hard time at first with all the evergreen oaks. This
one looks superficially like canyon oak but the bark is even smoother and it
doesn't look like it's made up of a bunch of strips. It also has the
vertical stripes going up the bark that I often associate with the Red Oaks
of the East.
My wife (Ellen), mom (Gabriele) and dad (Virgil) appear in the following
images with the coast live oaks of Los Osos Oaks State Reserve.
> coast live oaks (Q. agrifolia) are another attractive species in the
> Red Oak group. I first encountered these two years ago in December
> on the way from Pasadena to San Francisco. I took a number of
> pictures at Los Osos Oaks State Reserve in the San Luis Obispo
> area. Later that day we went to Paso Robles and sampled the local
> wines. Tough day!
> As someone who knew absolutely nothing about California oaks before
> this trip in 2008, I had a hard time at first with all the evergreen
> oaks. This one looks superficially like canyon oak but the bark is
> even smoother and it doesn't look like it's made up of a bunch of
> strips. It also has the vertical stripes going up the bark that I
> often associate with the Red Oaks of the East.
> My wife (Ellen), mom (Gabriele) and dad (Virgil) appear in the
> following images with the coast live oaks of Los Osos Oaks State
> Reserve.
> Doug
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these trees became more and more unusual the closer we went to the ocean. That is they became more and more horizontal rather than vertical...Or as Randy suggests, more kraken-like! I love this crazy growth. I've seen some pictures of white oaks (Q. alba) from near the coast here in Massachusetts that had a somewhat similar, more horizontal form. I'd like to see some of these too and they're practically in my backyard!
Doug
--- On Sun, 12/6/09, Randy Brown <rbrown0...@wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> From: Randy Brown <rbrown0...@wideopenwest.com>
> Subject: Re: [ENTS] California Oaks / Coast Live Oak #1
> To: entstrees@googlegroups.com
> Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 4:38 PM
> kraken trees!
> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 15:41:40 -0800
> From: dougbidl...@yahoo.com
> Subject: [ENTS] California Oaks / Coast Live Oak #1
> To: wnts@googlegroups.com; entstrees@googlegroups.com
> ENTS,
> coast live oaks (Q. agrifolia) are another attractive species in the Red Oak group. I first encountered these two years ago in December on the way from Pasadena to San Francisco. I took a number of pictures at Los Osos Oaks State Reserve in the San Luis Obispo area. Later that day we went to Paso Robles and sampled the local wines. Tough day!
> As someone who knew absolutely nothing about California oaks before this trip in 2008, I had a hard time at first with all the evergreen oaks. This one looks superficially like canyon oak but the bark is even smoother and it doesn't look like it's made up of a bunch of strips. It also has the vertical stripes going up the bark that I often associate with the Red Oaks of the East.
> My wife (Ellen), mom (Gabriele) and dad (Virgil) appear in the following images with the coast live oaks of Los Osos Oaks State Reserve.
Doug, Cool photos! I've been curious about the Cal., oaks for a
while. A friend was out there a year or so ago and brought me some
acorns of the Cal., White Oak and the Coastal Live Oak. I had two
Whites growing but the squirrels got to them and they ate them, darn!
Great stuff, someday I hope to visit California. I remember BVP
posting some stuff on those giants out west in the past. Larry
> Doug, Cool photos! I've been curious about the Cal., oaks for a
> while. A friend was out there a year or so ago and brought me some
> acorns of the Cal., White Oak and the Coastal Live Oak. I had two
> Whites growing but the squirrels got to them and they ate them, darn!
> Great stuff, someday I hope to visit California. I remember BVP
> posting some stuff on those giants out west in the past. Larry
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