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Quercus agrifolia

Index Quercus agrifolia

Quercus agrifolia, the California live oak or coast live oak, is a highly variable, often shrubby evergreen oak tree, a type of live oak, native to the California Floristic Province. [1]

72 relations: Acorn, Adobe, Aesculus californica, Baja California, Big Sur, California Floristic Province, Calybium and cupule, Canopy (biology), Caterpillar, Catkin, Chionodes occidentella, Electric power, Encinitas, California, Encino, Los Angeles, Eudicots, Evergreen, Fagaceae, Fagales, Filoli, Flower, Flowering plant, Fruit, Gunpowder, Heteromeles, Introgression, Kiln, Landscape painting, Landscaping, Leaf, List of Quercus species, Live oak, Luis Née, Manzanita, Mendocino County, California, Native Americans in the United States, Oak, Oakland, California, Pacific Ocean, Perennial stream, Photosynthesis, Phryganidia californica, Phytophthora, Phytophthora ramorum, Plant, Quercus chrysolepis, Quercus engelmannii, Quercus kelloggii, Quercus lobata, Quercus wislizeni, Rancho Los Encinos, ..., Rosids, San Diego, San Fernando Valley, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, San Mateo County, California, Section (botany), Settler, Shipbuilding, Shrub, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish language, Sun, Sympatry, Taxonomy (biology), Thorns, spines, and prickles, Tomentose, Toxicodendron diversilobum, Umbellularia, Variety (botany), Woodland. Expand index (22 more) »

Acorn

The acorn, or oak nut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae).

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Adobe

Adobe is a building material made from earth and other organic materials.

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Aesculus californica

Aesculus californica, commonly known as the California buckeye or California horse-chestnut, is a species of buckeye native to California and southwestern Oregon.

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Baja California

Baja CaliforniaSometimes informally referred to as Baja California Norte (North Lower California) to distinguish it from both the Baja California Peninsula, of which it forms the northern half, and Baja California Sur, the adjacent state that covers the southern half of the peninsula.

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Big Sur

Big Sur is a rugged section of California's Central Coast between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean, that is frequently praised for its dramatic views.

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California Floristic Province

The California Floristic Province (CFP) is a floristic province with a Mediterranean-type climate located on the Pacific Coast of North America with a distinctive flora similar to other regions with a winter rainfall and summer drought climate like the Mediterranean Basin.

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Calybium and cupule

The calybium and the cupule make up the accessory fruit of flowering plants in the family Fagaceae.

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Canopy (biology)

In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant community or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns.

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Caterpillar

Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).

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Catkin

A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster (a spike), with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind-pollinated (anemophilous) but sometimes insect-pollinated (as in Salix).

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Chionodes occidentella

Chionodes occidentella is a moth in the Gelechiidae family.

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Electric power

Electric power is the rate, per unit time, at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit.

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Encinitas, California

Encinitas is a beach city in the North County area of San Diego County, California.

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Encino, Los Angeles

Encino is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Eudicots

The eudicots, Eudicotidae or eudicotyledons are a clade of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-magnoliid dicots by previous authors.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green.

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Fagaceae

Fagaceae is a family of flowering plants that includes beeches and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species.

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Fagales

The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best-known trees.

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Filoli

Filoli is a country house set in of formal gardens surrounded by a estate, located in Woodside, California, about south of San Francisco, at the southern end of Crystal Springs Reservoir, on the eastern slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Heteromeles

Heteromeles arbutifolia (more commonly by Californian botanists), commonly known as toyon, is a common perennial shrub native to extreme southwest Oregon, California, Baja California, and British Columbia.

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Introgression

Introgression, also known as introgressive hybridization, in genetics is the movement of a gene (gene flow) from one species into the gene pool of another by the repeated backcrossing of an interspecific hybrid with one of its parent species.

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Kiln

A kiln (or, originally pronounced "kill", with the "n" silent) is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.

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Landscape painting

Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of landscapes in art – natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view – with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.

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Landscaping

Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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List of Quercus species

The genus ''Quercus'' (oak) contains about 600 species,David J. Mabberley.

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Live oak

Live oak or evergreen oak is any of a number of oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that share the characteristic of evergreen foliage.

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Luis Née

Luis Née (July 12, 1735–October 3, 1807) was a French-born Spanish botanist and prolific collector of plant specimens who accompanied the Malaspina Expedition on its five-year scientific exploration of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands.

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Manzanita

Manzanita is a common name for many species of the genus Arctostaphylos.

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Mendocino County, California

Mendocino County is a county located on the north coast of the U.S. state of California.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Perennial stream

A perennial stream or perennial river is a stream or river (channel) that has continuous flow in parts of its stream bed all year round during years of normal rainfall.

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Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities (energy transformation).

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Phryganidia californica

Phryganidia californica, the California oakworm or California oak moth, is a moth of the family Notodontidae.

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Phytophthora

Phytophthora (from Greek (phytón), "plant" and (phthorá), "destruction"; "the plant-destroyer") is a genus of plant-damaging oomycetes (water molds), whose member species are capable of causing enormous economic losses on crops worldwide, as well as environmental damage in natural ecosystems.

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Phytophthora ramorum

Phytophthora ramorum is the oomycete plant pathogen known to cause the disease sudden oak death (SOD).

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Quercus chrysolepis

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.

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Quercus engelmannii

Quercus engelmannii, the Engelmann oak or Pasadena oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section Quercus sect.

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Quercus kelloggii

Quercus kelloggii, the California black oak, also known as simply black oak, or Kellogg oak, is an oak in the red oak section (Quercus sect. Lobatae), native to western North America.

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Quercus lobata

Quercus lobata, commonly called the valley oak or roble, grows into the largest of North American oaks.

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Quercus wislizeni

Quercus wislizeni, known by the common name interior live oak, is an evergreen oak, highly variable and often shrubby, found in many areas of California in the United States continuing south into northern Baja California in Mexico.

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Rancho Los Encinos

Rancho Los Encinos (also Rancho El Encino and Rancho Encino) was a Spanish grazing concession, and later Mexican land granted cattle and sheep rancho and travelers way-station on the El Camino Real in the San Fernando Valley, in present-day Encino, Los Angeles County, California.

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Rosids

The rosids are members of a large clade (monophyletic group) of flowering plants, containing about 70,000 species, more than a quarter of all angiosperms.

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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San Fernando Valley

The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California, defined by the mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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San Mateo County, California

San Mateo County (Spanish for "Saint Matthew") is a county located in the U.S. state of California.

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Section (botany)

In botany, a section (sectio) is a taxonomic rank below the genus, but above the species.

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Settler

A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant.

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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)

The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The overseas expansion under the Crown of Castile was initiated under the royal authority and first accomplished by the Spanish conquistadors.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Sympatry

In biology, two species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter one another.

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Taxonomy (biology)

Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.

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Thorns, spines, and prickles

In plant morphology, thorns, spines, and prickles, and in general spinose structures (sometimes called spinose teeth or spinose apical processes), are hard, rigid extensions or modifications of leaves, roots, stems or buds with sharp, stiff ends, and generally serve the same function: physically deterring animals from eating the plant material.

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Tomentose

No description.

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Toxicodendron diversilobum

Toxicodendron diversilobum (syn. Rhus diversiloba), commonly named Pacific poison oak or western poison oak, is a woody vine or shrub in the sumac family, Anacardiaceae.

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Umbellularia

Umbellularia californica is a large hardwood tree native to coastal forests of California, as well as to coastal forests extending into Oregon.

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Variety (botany)

In botanical nomenclature, variety (abbreviated var.; in varietas) is a taxonomic rank below that of species and subspecies but above that of form.

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Woodland

Woodland, is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade.

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Redirects here:

California live oak, Carmel Oak, Coast Live Oak, Coast live oak, Quercus acroglandis, Quercus acutiglandis, Quercus oxyadenia, Quercus pricei.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_agrifolia

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