Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Deerhunter21 on April 16, 2019, 05:59:11 am
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I hope i did this right this time but i have been dying to know what these trees were. They attract wasps and are jusy ugly! Thanks!
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Winged elm perhaps? If it has little wings growing out of the small branches it is but I can't tell from the pictures.
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no wings. sorry about the bad pic
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it may be hedge maple can anyone confirm that? I will post a pic of the leaf
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it may be hedge maple can anyone confirm that? I will post a pic of the leaf
Looks nothing like any sort of Maple to me... but then you guys have some weird trees over there ;D
Del
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GOT IT! its white oak! i forgot it has acorns! i went to a website to identify my tree and its leaves look just like white oak, its acorn looks just like it! still open to suggestions! i may be wrong!
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Got It
I May Be Wrong
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I got excited! ;D >:D
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The only Oak trees we have here are not native so my knowledge is limited but my neighbour planted a couple and the Jays have spread them around. I think the White Oak leaf is about a distinctive as you can get. That coupled with acorns should pretty much nail it down.
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If you ruined your chain saw trimming of that branch, white oak is a good guess, but any oak will do that! Most white oaks I remember had somewhat horizontal limbs, though.
Hawkdancer
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No I didn't ruin my chainsaw! I don't even have one! the branch was cut off when it was little so when it grows the open space grows like it wasnt cut. looking at the white oak information is making me even more sure! thanks for the help guys!
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how big are the acorns
That tree looks more like a post oak to me
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It's not white oak. You may have to wait for the leaves to come out.
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I agree with a post oak, I have one about the same size in my front yard. The acorns are very small, dark colored and the deer will walk by a loaded white oak tree to get them.
I set up a trail cam on mine one time and there were 8 deer under it in one night. There was a heavy red and white oak crop that year but these deer wanted post oaks.
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hmm. I think I jumped the gun with the white oak. it might be post oak. the leaves look like it but your right Pat I'll need to wait for the leaves but I think we have narrowed it down to 1 or 2 trees. I really got to slow down with stuff like this!
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Or possible a sawtooth oak(Quercus acutissima), native of China and planter here for wildlife. Where it takes a white oak 75 years from acorn to acorn the sawtooth will start producing in 6 to 7 years and after a few more yours produces lots of acorns. It is now considered an invasive exotic because it produces so many acorns so quickly. I think it is in the white oak family. It has an acorn like a white oak but twice as big. The leaves should tell.
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Bark does't look like Post Oak. Burr Oak maybe. The leaves look similar to white oak leaves. Quercus Macrocarpa.
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it definitely has the unique leafs, egg shape, bottom of its fuzzy, no sharp parts, lots of predictable dips and curves symmetrical to the other side, like most oaks that have white wood. sorry i'm not really good at explaining leafs and i might have missed some details or got them wrong.
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does the fuzzy bottom ring a bell?
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Burr Oak is also known as Mossy Cup Oak. The acorn has a fuzzy cup. “Finely dense pubescence” is how the bottom of the leaf is described.
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Yup I think we got it. fibrous acorn top, fuzzy leaf, they all match with burr oak. i think it's a Urban Pinnacle Oak tree which is a type of Burr oak. is burr oak a good bow wood?
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Burr Oak is in the white oak family. Don't make too much of that as Live Oak is in the Red Oak family and they are two different woods. If it is Burr Oak, and we still aren't sure without a leaf or two. But if it is, you'll just have to find someone who has used it as I have not. Or make a bow with it and find out.
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Not sure about the id, but you plant corn when the oak leaves are as big as a squirrel's ear, and it will be knee high by the 4th of July! And you will be able to id the tree! >:D. Maybe. All the oak trees around here are imported ornamentals.
Hawkdancer
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Here is my post oak, without the foliage it has gnarly limbs and branches.