Leather Oak (Quercus durata var. durata) Login         


        Description
  • Height 3 - 12 ft.
  • EW Bloom May - Jul
  • Leather oak is a shrub that does well in poor soils and dry conditions.
  • Leaves are leathery, hairy and spiny.
  • It's often found with manzanita in serpentine chaparral.
  • CA native. Found only in California.
  • Beech Family (Fagaceae)



Leaves are tough and leathery, curled under, and have spiny teeth on the margins.



Leather Oak is a dense leafy shrub, and is often found in serpentine chaparral.



Leaves are covered in hair. Acorn caps are bumpy and rough.

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Leather Oak is generally found on [[serpentine]] soil, often near manzanitas, in [[chaparral]] of the coast ranges. [[Evergreen]] leaves grow close ...

Leaves are tough and leathery, and often turn under at the edges. Margins have spine-tipped teeth.

Leaves are hairy on their stalks and on both sides. Acorns form on new growth and mature in one season.

Male flowers appear on drooping [[catkins]]. When they are mature, their dried out [[anther]] sacs split open, releasing thousands of pollen spor ...

Acorns start green and turn brown when they're mature. They have a rough, bumpy cap that does not cover much of the acorn. Like others in the Wh ...