equalityboy81 asked:


I sincerely believe I saw a pine/oak hybrid among a group of many live oak trees. This tree had all the characteristics of a live oak except that it’s bark and “leaves” (it had pine needles) were that of a pine. Besides the bark and needles, it looked identical to the other oak trees in every way. The limbs and trunk were that of a live oak. I was amazed by this. There were no other pine trees around the area. Pines are supposed to grow straight up, not spread out limbs with a wavy trunk like that of an oak. Can oaks and pines really cross-breed? Do you think it was a cross pollinated or grafted tree? If the crossing of the two species is possible, how is it possible? This seems to me to be a fluke of nature or some sort of mutation.

Lauren