Quercus geminata Medicinal Lonicera fragrantissima and Lonicera standishii

Lonicera fragrantissima and Lonicera standishii

in the thick

Long grown in California but still little known in the southeastern United States

sasanqua in autumn

lying down

Quercus geminata Medicinal Lonicera fragrantissima and Lonicera standishiiSand live oak is the live oak of the sandhills, a tough, evergreen cousin of the great Southern live oak scaled for drier, leaner ground. Where Quercus virginiana spreads into a vast shade tree, this species usually stays a small tree or even a shrub, dark and dense and salt proof, holding leathery evergreen leaves through the year on the deep, dry sands of the coastal plain. The two are close kin, long lumped together, and the telling differences are