Doug, Man, what a magical species! I would love to spend some time among those gnarly beauties. Thanks so much for the western posts.
Will F. Blozan President, Eastern Native Tree Society President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. "No sympathy for apathy" -----Original Message----- From: doug bidlack [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 6:42 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] 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. Doug -- Western Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org/wnts/index_wnts.html To post send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/WNTS?hl=en -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
