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unusual facts about coast live oak



Meiners Oaks, California

When a friend and business associate, Edward D. Holton, travelled through California and investigated the land, Meiners learned that he had acquired one of the largest oak groves on flat ground in southern California.

Mycena californiensis

The fruit bodies grow in clusters or scattered on the decomposing leaves and acorns of oak trees, such as Coast Live Oak, Valley Oak and Black Oak.


see also

Quercus agrifolia

The California Oak Moth (Phryganidia californica) caterpillar subsists entirely on living and fallen leaves of the Coast Live Oak.