Quercus agrifolia
photo by Eric in SF on Flickr
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- Nov 17, 2009
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- Sep 03, 2007
Species from California and Baja Mexico
Photographed in Golden Gate Park.
This could be an individual from a hybrid swarm. In reading about these trees, there are enough species growing together that it's possible for cross-pollination and thus hybridization to occur.
I love acorns. They were my favorite thing to collect and play with in fall during childhood.
University of British Columbia Botany Photo of the Day - September 17, 2007
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Wikipedia Article
Quercus agrifolia, the Coast Live Oak, is an evergreen oak (highly variable and often shrubby), native to the California Floristic Province. It grows west of the Sierra Nevada from Mendocino County, California, south to northern Baja California in Mexico. It is classified in the red oak section (Quercus sect. Lobatae).
This species is commonly sympatric with Canyon Live Oak, and the two may be hard to distinguish because their spinose leaves are superficially similar.
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An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus ( /ˈkwɜrkəs/; Latin "oak tree"), of which about 600 species exist. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus. The genus is native to the northern hemisphere, and includes deciduous and evergreen species extending from cool temperate to tropical latitudes in Asia and the Americas.
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