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2. Live oak - Wikipedia

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   The wood of live oaks continues to be used occasionally in shipbuilding—and in tool handles for its strength, energy absorption, and density, although modern composites are often substituted with good effect. Dry Southern live oak lumber has a specific gravity of 0.88, among the highest of North American hardwoods.

3. Quercus virginiana - Wikipedia

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   Quercus virginiana, also known as the southern live oak, is an evergreen oak tree endemic to the Southeastern United States. [5] Though many other species are loosely called live oak, the southern live oak is particularly iconic of the Old South. Many very large and old specimens of live oak can be found today in the Deep South region of the ...

4. Quercus agrifolia - Wikipedia

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   Quercus agrifolia, the California live oak, or coast live oak, is an evergreen live oak native to the California Floristic Province. Live oaks are so-called because they keep living leaves on the tree all year, adding young leaves and shedding dead leaves simultaneously rather than dropping dead leaves en masse in the autumn like a true ...

5. List of Quercus species - Wikipedia

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   Styles short, acorns mature in 18 months, very bitter, inside of acorn shell woolly. [citation needed] Quercus cedrosensis — Cedros Island oak — # California + Baja California. Quercus chrysolepis — canyon live oak — # southwestern North America. Quercus palmeri — Palmer oak — # California, western Arizona.

6. Oak - Wikipedia

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   Oak timber is a strong and hard wood with many uses, such as for furniture, floors, building frames, and veneers. The wood of a red oak Quercus cerris (the Turkey oak) has better mechanical properties than those of the white oaks Q. petraea and Q. robur; the heartwood and sapwood have similar mechanical properties.

7. Quercus chrysolepis - Wikipedia

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   Quercus chrysolepis, commonly termed canyon live oak, canyon oak, golden cup oak or maul oak, is a North American species of evergreen oak that is found in Mexico and in the western United States, notably in the California Coast Ranges. This tree is often found near creeks and drainage swales growing in moist cool microhabitats. Its leaves are ...