Oak species?

[restoman]

This is something I hold pretty dear to myself. This is a tree I planted about 12 years ago as a sapling 3" tall. The sapling grew from a tree just 20 feet away. All but one of the 5 trees has been cut down that provided the seeds. The trees just remind me of childhood and this tree making it just puts a smile on my face every time I see it. I know this is an Oak growing in NW Louisiana. Any questions or additional information you need to help me will be furnished. I would like to plant some around my house now.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/26n7op7

 

[restoman]

I'm going with white oak. Are there any sub categories that my tree could fall into?

 

[tree md]

Yes, I would say White Oak as well. There is a broad variation of White Oak leaf shapes but I'd say it is White Oak.

Similar species are Overcup, Bur Oak, Swamp Oak and the Bluff Oak is also referred to as Bastard White Oak.

 

[tree md]

Here is a page with some info on identifying Oaks and Maples:

http://www.suite101.com/content/identifying-oaks-and-maples-a31608

 

[restoman]

Here is a page with some info on identifying Oaks and Maples:

http://www.suite101.com/content/identifying-oaks-and-maples-a31608

Thanks, but all that did was verify that we are looking at a white oak. I know it's not a maple. Let's hear from some more experts to get this nailed down specifically with a genus and species. Go latin on me.

 

[tree md]

Lol.

 

[restoman]

Lol.

Lol? you pointed me to a site you found by Googling "identifying oaks" and looked no further. I requested a collectives opinion. Lol at you.

 

[tree md]

Lol? you pointed me to a site you found by Googling "identifying oaks" and looked no further. I requested a collectives opinion. Lol at you.

Actually your question was answered by 20 years field knowledge and I also took the time to read and refer to my copy of Petersen's Field guide... The link was a resource that was referred to me by a close friend. When and if you take the time to figure out how ridicules your question is I bet you blush blood red.

Until then, I will tell you like most would around here, read the ####ing manual and keep you ass out of the professional forum and in the home owner help forum where you belong. If you took the time to read you would figure out that you are in a professional forum that is designed to teach newbies who are in the BUSINESS! I was trying to be nice...

Now catch a grip and get lost.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Lol? you pointed me to a site you found by Googling "identifying oaks" and looked no further. I requested a collectives opinion. Lol at you.

OUCH! He got you good!
Jeff

 

[tree md]

Really, I don't know what part of Quercus genus this moron does not understand. It was right in the link I provided for him as well as info on other trees... No good deed goes unpunished...

I'd be interested in anything else you have to add Jeff. I mean can you answer this morons question any more plainly???

LOL, I mean there is a reason your question is not being answered further dude... Number one, it has been answered and number 2, get back in the HO forum where you belong. This is a commercial forum..

 

[pwoller]

Really, I don't know what part of Quercus genus this moron does not understand. It was right in the link I provided for him as well as info on other trees... No good deed goes unpunished...

I'd be interested in anything else you have to add Jeff. I mean can you answer this morons question any more plainly???

LOL, I mean there is a reason your question is not being answered further dude... Number one, it has been answered and number 2, get back in the HO forum where you belong. This is a commercial forum..

I was scratching my head at his request too. Nice job putting him in his place!

 

[jefflovstrom]

Really, I don't know what part of Quercus genus this moron does not understand. It was right in the link I provided for him as well as info on other trees... No good deed goes unpunished...

I'd be interested in anything else you have to add Jeff. I mean can you answer this morons question any more plainly???

LOL, I mean there is a reason your question is not being answered further dude... Number one, it has been answered and number 2, get back in the HO forum where you belong. This is a commercial forum..

Ease up, ole man. I am just tugging on your wiskers. Our oaks out here got little itty bitty leaves, lots of them tho. Why did you not just answer unless you did not know?
Jeff

 

[tree md]

Jeff, I am a deer hunter... Deer prefer White Oak acorns over any other... I am fascinated with White Oaks and have been studying them for years. I have become an expert at picking them out of the forest where I now live and White Oaks are scarce like a needle in a hay stack. I manicure the oldest White Oak in my town which is owned by the president of our local BAR Association... I was trying to share some of my love of the white Oak with this numb nuts but I guess it was all for naught...

And if he ever takes the time to figure out the whole genus and "subspecies" thing I think he will understand that I was originally trying to do him a square...

 

[restoman]

I do appreciate what you have done. The E-thugery could be toned down a bit though. I'm not a tree specialist so I can see how you might have been upset with my neophyte question. From what I had read even being a white oak I understood that there were sub categories of them. If not I have my answer.

 

[tree md]

There are around 60 different species of Oaks that are Native to North America. North American Oaks fall into to groups, Read Oaks and White Oaks. Burr Oak, and Swamp Oak as well as the other verieties I mentioned are all similar species and all White Oak.

The Live Oak (evergreen) would be considered like a subspecies of Red Oak. Likewise, a Chestnut Oak would be considered a subspecies of White Oak. However, your tree would not be considered a subspecies of White Oak. It would fall into the category of one of the many similar species that is considered White Oaks.

 

[tree md]

If you really want to learn to identify the trees around you should invest in some kind of field guide and probably a magnifying glass as well. Sometimes trees are pretty easy to distinguish and sometimes not so easy. I often find it difficult to identify immature Oaks. With a field guide and a magnifying glass you can see characteristics like the presence of hairs on twigs or not as well as be able to identify them by things like leaf scaring and other characteristics that make it easy to positively ID them.

In all likelihood, I believe your tree is an Eastern White Oak (Quercus alba L), just as you had guessed.