Quercus engelmannii Engelmann oak

An attractive bluish-leaved oak from Southern California. Experimental plantings around Stanford in 2003 by Magic introduced the first Engelmann oaks to campus. One in the Arboretum north of Galvez Street, near El Camino Real, has attained a substantial size of 30 feet despite the demanding setting. Subsequent plantings at Apple Park in Cupertino around 2015 met with considerable success.

This helped spur a wave of new campus plantings beginning in 2024: a row along Lomita Drive at the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden; two at the entrance to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; one west of the Kingscote Gardens building; another in the ear of the Oval opposite Computing and Data Science; and several at Crothers Hall along Escondido Road, in a location where coast live oaks have declined for at least two decades.