help with identifying tree

Hi and thanks in advance for your help. Hopefully someone can help me with finding what type of tree that's in the pic below. I thought it was a live oak tree, but my uncle told me it was something different. He couldn't remember the the name of it ,but said he's thinking it started with "A". All I can tell you it my goats won't touch it. I'm clearing for a fence line and toss some over to them. They just snuffed it and the looked at me like "you kidding right" then just walked off. As you can see the leafs are shinny and has some what as live oak look to them. They stay green year round. You can also see the bark on the tree (just behind my hand) fork out a great deal and is smooth, that one is about 15 feet tall and is one of the larger ones. And as you can tell in the back ground there is lots of smaller saplings in the background bunched up pretty tight. The soil is all sand (central Texas sugar sand). And having mostly post oaks in the area. There is one live oak tree in my neighbor's yard. But it's 100 feet or so. Now all the saplings are in one area of about 50ft area. not sure if someone pick up a bunch of acorns and dumped over the area or what. I do have a few more scattered around but they are no more than a 100 feet or so way. Now those could have been plated buy some squirrels.
Again Thanks for you help

I can't see pics on my phone, but have you looked up trees of Texas? I have a booklet published in 1963 by Texas forestry service and I use it to identify trees. Maybe look up the forestry website.

Some kind of species of wild Laurel?

Does it bloom or develop any kind of seed pod?
What's the underside of the leaf like? Fuzzy, smooth?

Those leaves are similar to a live oak. The coast live oaks that I used to live under have a more curled leaf with a sharp short needle on the tip.

There's probably a lot of oaks that are called "live" oaks though.

I just googled around and found this on the Trees of Texas site.

Look familiar?

Well on second look, your leaves are too big to Apes-Earring.

I just bought the lot next door back in September last year. Really didn't notice them until I started cutting some thick brush to clear for a fence line so I can't say if it flowers during spring or not. But I've never seen anything with flowers on anything back there.
But here's a pic of backside. Didn't see Fuzz on back of leaves. Also there are no thorns on this tree.


And one more of front of leaves. No sign of flowering. Did notice The chiseled edges on the leaves that I hadn't noticed.

I wonder if it's Toyon (heteromeles arbutifolia ) ?
If so it will bloom in summer followed by red berries in the fall.

thought o azalea but with those leaves i'm thinking it could be bay laurel. have you ever seen it flower? do the leaves ever roll up like an evergreen does? have it been dropping it's leaves in the winter time?

OOPs double post

It does look like toyon but you have to trim the lower branches to get a tree. Left to grow by itself it is a big bush. We get those red berries just in time for the holiday season. Birds eat the berries and scatter the seeds. It's native in our area and an important wild food source for birds and small animals. The berries are edible but don't taste all that good.