Quercus geminata Medicinal lying down

lying down

and the occasional hummingbird all summer long

marking the Gulf Coast home of the Florida azalea

Long grown in California but still little known in the southeastern United States

Quercus geminata Medicinal lying downSand live oak is the live oak of the sandhills, a tough, evergreen cousin of the great Southern live oak scaled for drier, leaner ground. Where Quercus virginiana spreads into a vast shade tree, this species usually stays a small tree or even a shrub, dark and dense and salt proof, holding leathery evergreen leaves through the year on the deep, dry sands of the coastal plain. The two are close kin, long lumped together, and the telling differences are