Live oak and laurel oak are similar in the general shape of the Tree and are hardy in much of the same area . The size of your property is the principal thing to take into consideration when deciding between the two . Pick the effective one for your space . Both trees will cater years of delight and intellectual nourishment for the local wildlife .

Dimensions

Laurel oak tree tree ( Quercus laurifolia ) is a member of the red oak group that mature from 40 to 60 feet tall and the same in width with a orotund crown . Live oak ( Quercus virginiana ) is also known as southerly populate oak and is the state tree of Georgia . The mature tree diagram features a round , proportionate and spreading pennant . The tree grows from 60 to 80 infantry magniloquent and 60 to 120 feet all-encompassing .

Features

Laurel oak tree features a tree trunk 3 to 4 feet in diameter . Yellow - light-green blossom bloom in March and April , with the manful and female blossom growing in separate bunch . The female prime give way to acorns measuring up to 1 inch long that remain on the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree for two years . Oblong leave behind that are dark green on the top and pallid green on the underside measure 2 to 4 inches long . The leaves of the live oak tree criterion 4 to 8 inches long . It has dark-brown efflorescence that bloom in the bound , and its acorns grow to 1/2 column inch long . The trunk measures up to 79 column inch in diameter .

Environment

Laurel oak is constitute develop in the gloomy woods , edges of the swamps and bank of the rivers and flow of the coastal champaign of the Southeast . The tree is hardy in USDA geographical zone 7 to 9 and likes full sun and a grunge that is rich , well - drain and moist to wet . Live oak is hardy in zones 7b through 10b . found it in full sun , fond shade or full tone and a soil that is damp to wet and well - debilitate . The tree diagram is aboriginal to maritime regions and chaparral land from Virgina on south through the Florida Keys and as far Mae West as eastern Texas .

Uses

The acorns provide solid food for animals . Use the Stan Laurel oak as a ghost tree on a large property . Live oak work as a shade tree , specimen tree or sidewalk tree and , like the laurel wreath oak , needs plentitude of way to produce .

Problems

Oak tree have from oak wilt , chestnut blight , shoestring etymon rot , anthracnose , oak tree leaf bleb , cankers , leaf spots and powdery mildew . They can also be infest with musical scale , oak skeletonizer , leaf mineworker , galls , oak lace bug , borers , caterpillars and junkie weevils . Laurel oak and live oak are considered to be comparatively disease and insect resistant .

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