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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Identify this oak

Posted: 11/2/2011 4:08:21 PM EDT

I know how much the hive likes identifying stuff, so here goes...

I was traveling on I-68 through the Maryland panhandle and stopped at the Sideling Hill rest stop. There were a few downed limbs from the recent snow and a branch caught my eye. I didn't recognize the leaf as an oak and the acrorn was really distinctive.

Anyone know what it is?

Posted: 11/2/2011 4:09:20 PM EDT

[#1]

I think that's one of those imported sawtooth or chinese oaks.

It would make sense that you saw some up that way. Where I hunt near Fairfax has some plots of those.

Posted: 11/2/2011 4:13:10 PM EDT

[#2]

Why, that oak is my good buddy Chuck, I'd know him anywhere.

Posted: 11/2/2011 4:15:47 PM EDT

[#3]

Mighty?

Posted: 11/2/2011 4:16:25 PM EDT

[#4]

Looks like a sawtooth oak, although I did not know they would survive that far north.

Posted: 11/2/2011 4:17:55 PM EDT

[#5]

Its a Sawtooth Oak, or a Turkey Oak as we call them down here in Ga.

Posted: 11/2/2011 4:18:33 PM EDT

[#6]

Okeed Oak.

Posted: 11/2/2011 4:22:42 PM EDT

[#7]

Clearly a Rahstafarien oak. you can tell because teh acorn has dread locks

Posted: 11/2/2011 4:26:06 PM EDT

[#8]

That there is the (Quercus acutissima) or Sawtooth Oak. It is closely related to the Turkey Oak, but not the same tree.

Posted: 11/2/2011 6:26:32 PM EDT

[#9]

Thanks for the responses. I wonder if the acorn will germinate and grow in Ohio?

Posted: 11/2/2011 6:33:40 PM EDT

[#10]

I have shingle oaks along my fence lines. They have a similar leaf, but the nut is small and striped. The wood contains a mix of white and red color.

Posted: 11/2/2011 6:36:53 PM EDT

[#11]

I enjoy seeing the variations among the same species of trees in different regions, even within a hundred miles or so. Some of the same kind of trees can almost look completely different, depending on where you're at. People are like that too.

Posted: 11/2/2011 6:38:06 PM EDT

[#12]

It's an Oak.

Posted: 11/2/2011 6:40:31 PM EDT

[#13]

I believe you will win the Academy Award for Best Display Of An Acorn In A Still Picture.

Posted: 11/2/2011 6:42:07 PM EDT

[#14]

....judging by the way you have the acorn suspended I'm guessing you thought you discovered something.

Posted: 11/2/2011 6:42:10 PM EDT

[#15]

Chinese Sawtooth oak

Posted: 11/2/2011 6:43:07 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
I believe you will win the Academy Award for Best Display Of An Acorn In A Still Picture.

excellent

Posted: 11/2/2011 6:47:32 PM EDT

[#17]

Both the leaf and acorn look like those of a Tanbark Oak (Lithocarpus densiflorus) although they aren't native to the East coast.

ETA:

The leaves are sharply toothed, dark glossy green above and covered with white pubescence beneath. The fruit is an acorn, 2.5cm (1 in.) long, set in a shallow, pubescent cup with reflexed scales.

Trees of the World Russell, Cutler and Walters. p.151

Posted: 11/2/2011 6:53:03 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

Okeed Oak.

Posted: 11/2/2011 6:56:54 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
....judging by the way you have the acorn suspended I'm guessing you thought you discovered something.

One of my other hobbies is fossil collecting. That's what I use to display trilobites and brachiopods.

Posted: 11/2/2011 7:02:24 PM EDT

[#20]

That's no oak, that's a space station.

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