Tag: Live Oak
Live oak (Quercus virginiana), also known as the southern live oak, is a normally evergreen oak tree native to the southeastern United States. Though many other species are loosely called live oak, the southern live oak is particularly iconic of the Old South.
When the term live oak is used in a specific rather than general sense, it most commonly refers to the southern live oak (the first species so named), but can often refer to other species regionally.
The southern live oak is the official state tree of Georgia.
In Texas, a small grove of trees, such as live oaks (Texas live oak or southern live oak) or elm, is known as a mott.
Live oak was widely used in early American butt shipbuilding. Because of the trees’ short height and low-hanging branches, lumber from live oak was specifically used to make curved structural members of the hull, such as knee braces (single-piece, inverted L-shaped braces that spring inward from the side and support a ship’s deck). In such cuts of lumber,…
