Quercus lobata
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Quercus lobata, commonly called the valley oak or roble, is the largest of the California oaks. It is endemic to the state, growing in interior valleys and foothills from Siskiyou to San Diego countie
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Oak apples on Q. lobata
A sapling
Typical Valley oak environment
Hooker Oak
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Hooker Oak was an extremely large valley oak tree in Chico, California. Amateur botanist and local socialite Annie Bidwell, whose husband had founded Chico, named the tree in 1887 after English botani
Quercus lobata
…Another had a diameter of over six feet, and the branches spread over 75 feet each way. I lay beneath its shade a little while before going on. The Hooker Oak of Chico, California, was once considered the largest-known valley oak. When it fell on May 1, 1977, it was nearly 30 m (100 ft) and 8.8 m (29 ft) in…
Photo of loggers alongside the main trunk of the Hooker Oak in the early 1980s