BrianBay9
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Started with four species, valley oak, Englemann oak, interior live oak and canyon live oak. I think. Identifying many of California oaks is guesswork as far as I'm concerned. The cage is to discourage the tree rats.
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So rethinking the ID on some. Engelmann oak is a California native, but rare. Here there seemed to be volunteers all over the place so I was suspicious. The leaves are very similar to southern live oak (Q virginiana), but that's not a Cali oak. Turns out the city of Fresno has been planting southern live oak as street trees for years. I found a street near me that has several, and that's where I was gathering acorns. So, now I'm pretty sure the darkest acorns in the pic above are from southern live oak.
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Getting a decent start, it seems.
