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Quercus virginiana, Mill. (Q. virens, Ait.). Live Oak. Figs.
3317-3319. Evergreen tree, to 50 or rarely to 70 ft., with almost
horizontal limbs, forming a wide-spreading head; sometimes shrubby:
lvs. elliptic or oblong, usually entire, with revolute margin, rarely
with a few spiny teeth above the middle, dark green and glossy above,
whitish tomentulose beneath, 1-3 in. long: fr. peduncled; acorn ovate,
about 1 in. long, embraced about one-third by the cup; scales thin,
appressed. Va. to Fla., west to Mex. S.S. 8:394, 395. G.F. 1:476;
5:486, 487; 6:7; 8:235. F.R. 1:643. Gng.8:1. G.W. 9, p. 505.—One of the
most beautiful of the American oaks and much planted as a shade and
avenue tree in the southern states; easily transplanted and of rapid
growth; also very valuable as a timber tree.
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->

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