The "Golden Oak" at Santa Barbara, Durango This oak had dark, smooth bark. Leaves: sMOOTH MARGINS 5cm long; 1.3cm wide. [Evergreen] 5cm long; 1.9cm wide. Bright green, no hairs Underside densely fuzzy, whitish fuzz very short. Acorns small, 1.1 x .8cm, streaked with green (like live oak) buffy color when ripe. Inner shell densely (short) fuzzy (Black oak like) Nut Yellow. Very common all through E. side Sierra Madre Occ. The "Blue Oak" at Santa Barbara, Durango This oak had light, shallowly furrowed bark (like Q. douglasii). Leaves variable, wider but otherwise not unlike Q. douglasii. Evergreen. Top very slightly bluish, but greener than "Blue" Underside light green; covered with moderately dense, short coat of reddish hairs. no spines 8.5 x 5cm big leaf 3.5 x 2.5 cm little leaf almost spiny on a few leaves light top darker buff Acorns light buffy -> 1.8 x 1.1 cm No hairs on inside Shell thin. Nut dark