Quercus fusiformis ~ Texas Live Oak-ServeScape
Quercus fusiformis ~ Texas Live Oak-ServeScape
Quercus fusiformis ~ Texas Live Oak-ServeScape

Quercus fusiformis

Texas Live Oak

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Texas Live Oak is a long-lived native semi-evergreen tree with a short trunk, low branches, and broad rounded crown.  The long leathery green foliage has lighter undersides and hold until spring before turning orange and dropping just in time for the new leaves to replace them.  Elongated acorns with a scale a cap that covers 1/3 of the acorn  one season.  Best grown in full sun and rich, moist, acidic well-drained soils.  Texas Live oak is thicket forming and has high heat and drought tolerance.

Quercus fusiformis is a host plant for the Hairstreak and Horace's Duskywing.

Type: 

Tree

Origins:

Texas and Mexico

Height: 

20’ - 40’

Spread: 

25’ - 40’

Spacing: 

30’

USDA Hardiness Zone: 

8 - 10

Culture: 

Full SunPart Sun

Bloom Color: 

Yellow

Season of Interest:

Year-Round

MAINTENANCE NEEDS:  Low Maintenance.  Root rot may be an issue in coastal areas, while Oak wilt is a serious issue in some areas.  Insect gall may damage foliage appearance.  

LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings, BordersWoodland GardensNaturalized AreasWildlife Gardens Privacy Screen, and Shade Tree.

COMPANION PLANTS: MagnoliaBurning BushCrape Myrtle

IMAGES: cultivar413 from Fallbrook, California, 170411 835 Encinitas - San Diego Botanic Gdn, Parking Lot, Quercus virginiana ssp fusiformis Southern Live Oak, the green color is brilliant and distinctive (33777250673)CC BY 2.0, (2) Rei at English WikipediaTexas Live Oak Quercus fusiformisCC BY-SA 2.5, (3) Larry D. Moore, Matrimonial Oak San Saba County TexasCC BY-SA 4.0

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.

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