Landscape Oak ID?

[S.C.garden]

Anybody care to make an ID on the type of oak? It's a landscape tree in Southern California. Acorns were relatively small compared to other species I've seen and had no lobed leaves whatsoever.

 

[rockm]

Anybody care to make an ID on the type of oak? It's a landscape tree in Southern California. Acorns were relatively small compared to other species I've seen and had no lobed leaves whatsoever.

Could be a Texas Live Oak (quercus fusiformis). They are native to Texas, but are used as landscape material throughout the S.W. because of their drought tolerance. The acorns and leaves are in line with that species. Acorns tend to be more elongated than 'regular' acorns. Leaves can come in a few forms, including non-lobed.

 

[BrianBay9]

I'm usually wrong in these ID guessing games, but it might be a southern live oak (Q virginiana). They have those very dark acorns and the leaves seem to be within the range of possibilities for them.

 

[S.C.garden]

I was thinking it looked like a shingle oak, acorns are pretty short- I'm not good with ID, though. The tree is in direct sunlight.

 

[rockm]

Pretty positive it's a fusiformis. Might be southern live oak (both have been planted as landscape trees in Cal. since the early 20th century). I have had a fusiformis as bonsai for going on 30 years. Leaves and acorns are pretty familiar. A larger image of the entire tree would also help ID.

 

[S.C.garden]

Here's a pic of the tree