What Kind of Tree Is This?

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

Such a beautiful rambling tree.

I copied it from @Oznell's thread about a Quiet California Christmas Home.

Is it a Live Oak maybe?

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Puppy Galore · ‎10-21-2025

@on the bay wrote:

Such a beautiful rambling tree.
I copied it from @Oznell's thread about a Quiet California Christmas Home.
Is it a Live Oak maybe?

@on the bay

I have one similar, in Northen California.. Mine is a scrub oak, I'll post a photo tomorrow.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

This is a large tree with a trunk and limbs that go in different directions and embrace all the birds and squirrels.

We had one at our complex and I loved it so much. They had to cut it down because the roots were lifting up the sidewalk. There is still another smaller one left. So pretty!

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Puppy Galore · ‎10-21-2025

@on the bay

Mine has dropped all its leaves, it also rambles and drops small branches. I have a botonist trim it every two years. Early in the mornings squirrels play on it. Often at night I can see a family of raccoons sitting together on the branches.

A few years ago my plumbing backed up into the house, one of the roots had grown into the pipes, that was 40 ft from the trunk to the waste pipes.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

The one I'm wondering about keeps it's dark green leaves all year long. It drops some but most all the leaves stay all year. It doesn't have any flowers or berries. The leaves are kind of oval.

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Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

I think it's a live oak.

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Q-Checker · ‎05-09-2010

I am far from an expert on trees but "oak" was my first thought. So, I am glad to see that @Kachina624 thouight so also

bellaartiste · ‎04-19-2012

It looks like an oak. I lived in South Pasadena, Ca and they were in all the neighborhoods. In the olden days the branches would spread out so far they used metal posts to support them. The one I had in my front yard was close to two hundred years old, and was huge.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@Kachina624 wrote:
I think it's a live oak.

@Kachina624,

I think so too. That is the closest I can find to it and I've looked and looked. Thanks

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spumoni99 · ‎02-16-2019

I think its an oak also. I live in CA and the builders when building homes are not allowed to cut them down, not sure the details but I know when our neighborhood was being built I was told that.