Sometimes, these leaves may even have veins that turn brown while interveinal.

Live oak dropping leaves in early spring. Live oaks, also known as evergreen oaks, are beautiful and stately trees in the landscape. However, live oaks are NOT true evergreens. They do drop their old leaves as new leaves emerge in the spring. This is NORMAL and NOT a disease shrubclean.barted Reading Time: 2 mins.

Mar 01, The major live oak leaf drop takes place in the Spring. When the weather warms up, and the trees move out of winter dormancy, live oaks begin to develop new leaf buds. Before the new leaves can grow, however, live oaks have to drop the old leaves. As the old leaves die, they turn brown and fall, preparing for the new leaves to bud out. Sep 25, If the oak branches that are falling have green leaves on them, you are most likely seeing the result of squirrel nest building activity.

Normally this is more common in early summer and/or early winter. That it might be occurring now is a bit unexpected.

For a definitive answer on this, I would strongly suggest that you have a certified, professional arborist make an on-site inspection and evaluation of your oak this fall.

However this year has also seen spring shrubs (e.g., lilacs) blooming a second time. If your tree is dropping leaves that look green and healthy, all is probably good! You likely just have a tree that naturally sheds in spring. Below are the most common trees that do this. Common Trees That Lose Their leaves in Spring.

Hackberry; Hickory; Holly; Live oak; Southern magnolia; I don’t have one of those trees, so why are my tree’s leaves falling in spring? If your fallen tree leaves appear curled. Jun 03, For the past two weeks the tree has been dropping a large number of green leaves, as well as some brown leaf clusters. There is no evidence of insect damage, and we did not experience the same problem last year. The tree is in the lower section of the yard, and rain water drains that shrubclean.barted Reading Time: 7 mins.