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Quercus fusiformis
Also called Escarpment Live Oak, Plateau Oak, Edwards Plateau Live Oak, West Texas Live Oak, Live Oak, Plateau Live Oak
Texas live oak is a semi-evergreen to evergreen oak tree native to Texas, southwestern Oklahoma and northeastern Mexico, prized for drought tolerance and shade. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and it does best where summers are hot and winters mild.
Quercus fusiformis (also often referred to as Q. virginiana var. fusiformis), commonly known as escarpment live oak, plateau live oak, plateau oak, or Texas live oak, is an semi-evergreen/tardily deciduous tree. Its native range includes the Quartz Mountains and Wichita Mountains in southwestern Oklahoma, through Texas (approximately from the Brazos River west up to the Pecos River and the southern Llano Estacado), to the Mexican states of Coahuila, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo León.
Quercus fusiformis is an evergreen tree in the southern live oaks section of the genus Quercus (section Virentes). It is distinguished from Quercus virginiana (southern live oak) most easily by the acorns, which are slightly larger and with a more pointed apex.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Quercus fusiformis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
