The Quercus virginiana is also known as the Southern Live Oak tree. The Southern Live Oak is a large, sprawling, shade tree that is truly characteristic especially when draped with Spanish moss and is an icon of "the Old South"; the original thirteen colonies.
Southern Live Oak trees are extraordinarily durable and can live for centuries if it is properly cared for and located in the landscape. They can withstand occasional hurricanes and resist salt spray from beaches and oceans. Since Live Oak trees grow tall most Live Oaks can withstand fires because flames cannot reach the crowns. Live Oak trees can also withstand winter freezes and come back fuller and more beautiful each spring.
Live Oak trees are one of the broadest spreading oak trees producing an abundance of shade and privacy. Southern Live Oak trees are used for a wide array of things; corporations and businesses use Live Oak trees for landscaping in parking lots. Residential homes with large amounts of land use them for their landscape. Live Oak trees are also used in urban areas where pollution, poor drainage and drought occur.
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Southern Like Oak tree has amazing character and evergreen foliage that is bright olive green when young and when it matures changes to a glossy, dark green.
Live Oak trees normally typically are grown from Virginia to Florida including the Florida Keys and west to Texas. Some Southern live oaks can be found as far west as Oklahoma and northeastern Mexico.
