Hakim
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Looks like a tree in my back yard, and mine is a .... peach. Maybe yours is too! Leaves look the same. Does it produce any fruit? Sometimes they need fertilizer to bear. :thumbsup:
What tree is this?
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plowindeeper
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looks like a pin oak to me thats what ive always called them may have a different proper name 50 or 60 on my place
PossumHound
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Fruit trees, apple, pear, cherry, peach, etc, all have simple toothed leaves. That is there are small "teeth" around the edges of the leaves. They are sometimes so small as to be hard to see, but they are there on all North American fruit trees.
Live oaks do have leaves with that shape, but they are much smaller. Pin oaks, actually willow oaks, also have similar shape but much smaller. There is a pin oak, but it has the common five lobed oak leaf shape with a thin pin-like spike at the tip of each lobe with a very distinctive dark grey bark.
After some more research I'm still thinking it's a laurel oak.
PH
Live oaks do have leaves with that shape, but they are much smaller. Pin oaks, actually willow oaks, also have similar shape but much smaller. There is a pin oak, but it has the common five lobed oak leaf shape with a thin pin-like spike at the tip of each lobe with a very distinctive dark grey bark.
After some more research I'm still thinking it's a laurel oak.
PH
RandyT
Elite Member
take it from someone with a B.S. forestry. Its Shingle Oak.
keegs
Veteran Member
maybe willow oak
PossumHound
Gold Member
I agree, the leaves are very similar to laurel oak, but that ID makes sense. I'll definitely defer to the forestry major on this. I roomed with a forestry student once in college, and the tree ID course he went through at NCSU was tough, tough, tough.
PH
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czechsonofagun
Elite Member
Thanks, gentlemen, it looks like a willow oak - of course I did not even know it exists
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It is a tree in our mini forest, tall tree between oaks and maples and the wood really looks like oak.
.It is a tree in our mini forest, tall tree between oaks and maples and the wood really looks like oak.
RandyT
Elite Member
The willow oak that I have seen had smaller narrower leaves. People have different names for the same plant in different parts of the country so the different may be just in the common name.
the guy that posted about the tree ID is right. Mine required knowing the common name, Genus, Species, and
Family of over two hundred trees and plants and had to be able to spell them all correctly. Plus had to know how to identify not only by leaves, but also bark, twig, bloom, and twig features. Plus a class in Lumber ID. color, odor, grain identification over 100 types of lumber some not even native to the US of A.
