Toggle navigation. A streetscape of iconic live oaks. Purchases made via links on our site may earn us an affiliate commission. These are 10 of the best espresso makers and accessories on sale now. Follow Us. These differences may be genetic since most live oaks are grown from seedlings, or due to stresses such as girdling roots and soil differences in the site.
If trees are losing leaves throughout the year and the canopy is growing thinner and does not put on new foliage following spring leaf drop then your trees are likely suffering from other stress factors.
In such cases it is best to seek the assistance of a professional arborist. For more information check out the Texas Plant Clinic web site on spring live oak leaf drop.
Your email address will not be published. Marcescence may indeed be helpful to trees living in dry, cold, deer-infested environments. But it may also be simply a sign that beech and oak are evolutionarily delayed, still on their way to becoming fully deciduous from their more evergreen past.
Lovely article. After a walk in the woods in southern Ontario, April 17 I noticed Beech trees in several pine groves. Is it possible they are like Walnut in this respect? I think this spacing is more than coincidence.
A forest stream was nearby in the general area. Other species included white and red pine, cedars, currents, raspberries, Mayapples, Skunkmcabbage, Canadian Anemone, Oak, Maple, Willows, and one unidentified tree possibly Hickory a long dead single specimen in a 10 mile radius. Hi from over the Atlantic! Been reading about late leaf fall on Oak trees and we have had our house built on the edge of a wood containing many oak trees in the area and fields around.
We have one oak which must be plus years old in our garden which is still in nearly full leaf and yet the 3 oaks in the wood next to it lost their leaves about 2 months ago. Just wondering if the main tap root to our tree is deeper and larger thus keeping the tree in leaf much longer?
Thoughts on that please from the expert arborialists out there…. I guess pushing 50 does settle you down and help you appreciate other interesting things lol. Great info from the article and the comments as well, thank you. I have wondered for years if the reason that Oaks and Beeches hold onto their leaves is because of the leathery quality of the leaves.
Could it be also that they remain closer to being evergreens? We have a sugar maple in the backyard which is split forming a v shape a couple of feet up. I have seen this many times in other trees.
I have often wondered what causes this, as opposed to having one single trunk. The tree is about three feet in diameter just under the split so I would estimate the tree to be one hundred or more years old. Any ideas? We have a couple of what I believe are big-leaf maples. The leaves come on sooner in the spring and shed much later in the fall.
In fact most other trees have already turned and shed before these leaves have even started to turn. My thinking is genetics developed over the years from perhaps a colder climate these trees were indigenous to originally.
Any thoughts? Very interesting article, often wondered about it myself. I have two massive landmark white oaks on the southeastern side of my property, not a problem with them since the wind comes from the north west. My neighbor however has four large white oaks on my northwestern side of my property and I always get bombarded with their leaves in late winter and spring.
Always raking leaves in the spring from around my house and yard, just seems peculiar raking leaves twice a year, now I understand more about the trees, thanks for the information. Nice article. Today I noticed that a shingle oak Quercus imbricaria, a marcescent species was losing leaves over time with some falling today, but no new growth is yet visible. I found many insight.
Some souls may cling around lower frequencies because of their attachments instead of letting go. These clinging leaves made me pray harder for his soul. Thank you for the article. I was able to identify a young southern sugar maple, or Florida maple in my yard today early March because it still has papery bleached leaves firmly clinging on.
Right now all the other maples are bare. My hunch is that this particular maple is growing near a beautiful beech and is jealous! Can you offer an explanation as to why the flowering pear retains its leaves deep into December? Female oaks still in full dress, albeit brown dress. Upstate house all leaves down except the beeches. These beeches are not saplings. We read somewhere that some trees want to advertise nut and seed bounty to birds and seed hoarders in winter.
Therefore the sumac produces brilliant red cones. Acorns are high in tannin and squirrels bury them not only in caching frenzy but because putting them in the wet ground leaches out some of the tannin, otherwise only the top part of the nut is palatable to them when the acorns first drop—which is why you see so many partially eaten acorns.
The females hanging onto the leaves is telling the squirrels they will find acorns down below, just as our beech trees are telling the birds where the beechnuts are and the sumac is telling the birds, you may not like the taste but in the dead of winter my red cones tell you where you can still fill your belly. Certain trees dress themselves to advertise. I have also read that regardless of the weather, oak trees will produce bumper crops of acorns every second year. This appears to hold true for the Paterson oaks.
This year was phenomenal in number and size and quality. Last year, not so much. We are required to keep our sidewalks clear in Paterson. Upstate we let the process flow as old tree dies, new ones shelter beneath. We keep the leaves off the drive and the main yard, but let all the rest do their thing.
Thanks for the informative article. I tell hikers that if they see leaves persisting in the forest in winter, then the tree is either beech or ironwood. As it seemed there are more beech trees with leaves this year than I have seen, I wanted to learn why.
I appreciated that you explained that we are still learning about these trees and do not have all the answers.
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