Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Zone5 oak in zone8, 0 by Lucky_P

Lucky_P wrote:
Coleen,
I don't currently have a photo of the seedling at home - grown from acorns I collected from live oak trees on the Auburn University campus, several years ago when I was back home visiting my parents.

But, I do have photos of a live oak(probably Q.virginiana, but could be Q.fusiformis - I've not really delved into definitively ID-ing it), planted on the campus of the community college, across the street from my office, in 1970 - it is really more of a copse, composed of a dozen or so stems, suggesting to me that it was damaged - perhaps by the severe winter of 1978, and re-sprouted from the rootcollar - or, perhaps it is just Q.fusiformis, which is more likely to form a copse than is Q.virginiana. I've been watching this tree for 8-10 years now, and have observed no winter damage. I does crop lightly, but I'm rarely able to beat the squirrels and jays to the acorns..