Talk:Live oak

The "driveway" looks like an avenue of Southern live oak and might say so. --Wetman (talk) 15:53, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Leaves: Like deciduous oaks?
One of the first questions I had on coming here and finding out it was an evergreen oak was along the lines of what do the leaves look like--do they look like a typical oak leaf or are they more like a typical evergreen "needle"? (And, of course, if the latter, why/how is it classified as an oak?)

I can't really tell from the picture.

Could somebody who knows say something about the leaves (in the article)?


 * not at all like pine needles, but somewhat different looking from the oaks one typically thinks of. The leaves are small about 1/10 the size of a typical oak leaf and they are tougher, but when you look closely you see the resemblance to the oak leaf form. Mirboj (talk) 03:07, 22 October 2012 (UTC)


 * If you are asking about the Southern Live oak, Quercus virginiana, then I'd say the leaves look similar to those of a holly (Ilex species), like the American holly (Ilex opaca) on shade leaves, leaves on vigorous shoots or leaves on juvenile plants, while more mature plants' leaves and leaves on less vigorous shoots or sun leaves look more like those of the Burford holly (a cultivar of Ilex cornuta) as can be seen in this photo http://chalk.richmond.edu/biology/trees/images/Ilex_cornuta_Burfordii_fr.jpg They don't really bear a resemblance to a typical deciduous oak tree's leaves in my opinion. Other "live" oaks have widely differing looking leaves and some of them do have more typical deciduous oak like leaves, like in the mostly Mexican oak Quercus canbyi or the exclusively Mexican oak Quercus albocincta for example. Kmanblue (talk) 04:52, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Rhkramer (talk) 16:11, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
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Rocket Tree
In Nov 2009 an anonymous editor added "Rocket Tree" as an alternate name for live oak. I can find no support for such a term online, so I'm going to delete it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jim10701 (talk • contribs) 12:39, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

List: Evergreen species in genus Quercus
Is this list meant to be inclusive of all the evergreen Quercus or only those native to the USA? As the significant majority of Quercus species around the world are evergreen(and that's not even including Subgenus Cyclobalanopsis which are all evergreen), what is the purpose of this list?Kmanblue (talk) 16:47, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * And make it even more parochial than this:
 * "These species, although not having "live" in their common names in their countries of origin, are colloquially called live oaks when cultivated in North America."

Do they do an English version of this stuff, or will we have to reinvent the wheel?

Weatherlawyer (talk) 20:31, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

What about Quercus glaucoides?
Isn't Quercus glaucoides a live oak? Why isn't it listed? Undesignated (talk) 07:05, 7 February 2013 (UTC)