Quercus virginiana an outstanding tree.

Family: FAGACEAE or beech family

A medium sized live oak on FSU campus.

Live oaks stand out among trees in Tallahassee providing a lasting first impression for visitors. In the FSU's picturesque park like grounds live oaks grow into impressive sprawling specimens dripping in mosses (lichens) and ferns. On hot summer days they provide welcome shade. Though these oaks are evergreen they lose and replace  their leaves year round.

Description: Large sprawling tree up 30+ m tall.Flowers: hanging catkins. Fruit: Shiny dark brown acorns often black at tip, 1-2.5 cm long. Leaves:alternate, simple and entire, leathery 2-15cm long x 1-5 cm wide, pale grey and slightly tomentose below.

Similar to: Sand live oak, (Quercus geminata) which has depressed veins and revolute leaf margins.

Live oak Acorns. Photo: Steve Hurst. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. United States, FL.


See specimens in the FSU herbarium.

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Map (click on points for information) of live oaks on FSU grounds in Tallahassee

Bluford W. Muir. Provided by National Agricultural Library. Originally from US Forest Service. United States, LA, New Orleans, Audubon Park. 1937.