12/7/2022 0 Comments Silverlock tree![]() To make room for the planned BioMedical Innovations Building. In May 2017 a 550,000 pound transplant was moved just across Pasteur Drive from where it stood, Was established on the west side of the Main Quad with transplants from that site). With the planning for the Science and Engineering Quad (Serra Grove Stanford’s extensive tree transplant program Seeing coast live oaks and other mature trees in large transplanting boxes aroundĬampus is commonplace. Healthy mature native oaks can still be found on central campus: visit the inner court of Governor’s corner where fine examples of blue, valley, and coast live oak grow as of December 2010.Ī cabled giant north of the house at Filoli in Woodside, inside the curve of the formal entry pathway there, was estimated to be 340 years old as of 2018 ( location).ĥ50,000 pound coast live oak transplanted on Pasteur Drive. Aĭecades-ago fallen tree, still growing vigorously, is behind the Mausoleum.Ī venerable tree in the lawn in front of Cummings Art (facing Lasuen) was taken down 15 December, 2010. Plaque at the southwest corner of Campus Drive East and Galvez Street. agrifolia include two in front of LagunitaĬourt the patriarch south of Arrillaga Alumni Center and one with a fun Spiral pattern) in the rotunda of Green Library’s Bing Wing.įine examples of Q. Wood from the tree was incorporated into the round table (the unusual Estimated to be 300 years old, it measuredħ0 feet tall, with a trunk diameter of 55 inches and a branch spread of 120įeet. Guard at the Mausoleum until it was removed in 1993, a victim of leaf and twigĭiseases cryptocline and diplodia. Gone is one of the university’s most beloved specimens, which stood It came down in 2008, but is vigorously sprouting from its roots. Was Stanford’s last officially certified historic tree. Serra Street and Lasuen Mall at the southwest corner of Lathrop Library, which was adopted by the class of 1895 as the Pioneer Oak, Pre-1953 photograph of the Pioneer Oak at Serra Street and Lasuen Mall. To the Quad, which is said to have been planted in 1918. ![]() It reaches an age of 200 to 300 years Īn idea of the rate of growth may be gained from the row along Lasuen Mall next Single species of large tree at Stanford. The coast live oak is in vogue for landscaping, being perhaps the most popular The acorns germinate freely all over the campus, especially where there is some Widely distributed by squirrels,Īnd stored by woodpeckers in custom-drilled holes in tree trunks and wood siding, The separate female flowers later produce acornsĪbout 1½ inches long and ½ inch in diameter. In spring the oaks liberate great quantities Inches long with a few spiny teeth along the margin and tufts of hair on the undersides, where the secondary veins branch from the main vein. Virginiana of the Southern United States) has tough convex leaves 1 to 2 The coast live oak (not to be confused with the live oak Q. The leaves more resemble the leaves of a holly (familyĪquifoliaceae) than they do a field so why is our favorite tree not The prefix agri refers to a field (as in agriculture). The word quercus means oak in Latin and survives in Italian as quercia. On campus and native to it, the evergreen live oak and the deciduous valley oak The gnarled old oaks, of which magnificent specimens abound. Visitors to the campus from other states often remark on ![]() Silverlock tree manual#McMinn & Evelyn Maino, An Illustrated Manual of Pacific Coast Trees ![]()
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