For those of you who aren’t aware that live oak trees drop their leaves every year despite the fact that we describe them as evergreen, look at the ground now. If you have live oak trees ...

But you will see big, beautiful oak trees, centuries old ... In the American South, caterpillars lay their eggs on the leaves of southern live oaks; farther north, they depend on other oak ...

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 for ...