This one is not like the other oaks

[Matias]

I am pretty good at my local tree ID, but I have this odd oak in my neighbors horse pasture, and one more down the hill by the irrigation ditch. I have a black oak down the road a few hundred feet, and she drops her leaves. This one seems to be an evergreen, but I feel like I once saw it with no leaves. It grows surprisingly fast, but it also a resprout and still young.

 

[Matias]

Oh shit, I think I figured it out! I have a black oak nearby, and loads of live oak, and apparently they occasionally produce viable hybridized acorns

Quercus × morehus - Wikispecies

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Hybrid Highlight: Quercus ×morehus Kellogg

Quercus ×morehus was initially called Abram’s oak by the author Albert Kellogg in his original 1863 description and was thought to be a unique species at the time (although his description was based on a single specimen). Current taxonomy designates this as a hybrid of Q. kelloggii × wislizeni...

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[chiselbit]

Oracle. Very cool trees

 

[evo]

I was going to guess a variation of black oak, and q. wislizeni

 

[Matias]

I was going to guess a variation of black oak, and q. wislizeni

exactly why I was so confused, because there is a black oak only about 100m away, so I knew it wasn't just some localized phenotypic variance due to my citrus growing climate.