Burying live oak trees' roots in San Antonio is landscape trend can threaten the tree's well-being, causing it to rot or slowing growth rate.

Live oak saplings coming from roots of mother tree. NEIL SPERRY Aug 12, 2024 Aug 12, 2024; 0; 1 of 2 ... Could the nearby live oak tree be causing them?

Some may be growing from acorns, but the ones by the mature live oak trees are almost entirely sprouts emerging from the root system. In our shallow soils the root systems are near the surface and ...

The trees were southern live oak. It appears what I saw was a natural form of “ layering ,” whereby a branch touches the ground and produces adventitious roots driven by hypoxia and the hunt ...

But there’s more to the live oak tree than meets the eye. An underground root system extends three to four times the area of the tree’s “drip line,” which is the farthest extent of the ...

I have multiple roots from a live oak running along my front yard. I would like to grind them down with a wood carver disc, so the bottom deck and blade of my rider mower do not get torn up.

Named for its jarring call, the largest native tree frog in the U.S.—typically 2 to 2.75 inches long—spends the warm months in the branches of live oaks and burrows beneath the roots in winter.

A live oak tree qualified as a grand tree by the zoning board was relocated on Nov. 7 for Charleston's new Courier Square Development. Here's how it happened.

This live oak photographed on April 18, 2025, is just feet from Ribaut Road and has been growing for an estimated 200 years in Beaufort. A local tree expert, Michael Murphy with Preservation Tree ...

The holly-like leaves coming up from under the rocks are juvenile foliage of live oaks. These are probably sprouts coming up from the root system of the mother tree.