liveoak

It was cabbage palms covered in strangler fig and gumbo limbo and slash pine inland; it was liveoak and mangrove in the few places the ground was wet.

Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008

He took his shotgun and went investigating, and what he found was a woman in a cage made of bean poles beneath a liveoak.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

He took his shotgun and went investigating, and what he found was a woman in a cage made of bean poles beneath a liveoak.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

Midway, under the shade of a magnificent liveoak, whose branches were mournful with the funereal moss

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Upon her return she found the old cowboy sitting dejectedly under a liveoak bush.

Down the Mother Lode Vivia Hemphill 1911

* This is the country of the liveoak and the magnolia, the gray, swinging moss and the yellow jessamine, the chameleon and the mockingbird.

Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903

They would come nap on hot mornings in my big liveoak tree next to the house.

Somervell County Salon 2010