Odd ball oak, prob a mutation

[evo]

Who the hell is this?

 

[ATH]

Maybe Q. robur 'filicfolia' or 'Pectinata'

 

[evo]

Maybe Q. robur 'filicfolia' or 'Pectinata'

Certainly warm, but I don’t think hot. The leaf margin it along the entire stipe.

 

[ATH]

Q. dentata 'Pinnatifida'???
Some pics look like that, but others are way off:

From here: http://www.thedangergarden.com/2014/05/quercus-dentata-pinnatifida-is-my.html

 

[evo]

Q. dentata 'Pinnatifida'???
Some pics look like that, but others are way off:

From here: http://www.thedangergarden.com/2014/05/quercus-dentata-pinnatifida-is-my.html

I think that’s it, guessing these are spring leaves and they thicken and darken.

Edit: following the links to the arboretum you nailed it!

 

[ATH]

Not going to pretend I knew that... I had seen the Q. robur 'filicifolia' at an arboretum before so that at least got me going down the right road of other cut leaf oaks where I was able to find that one.

 

[Treezybreez]

Were you able to get a seedling from it?

 

[ATH]

Were you able to get a seedling from it?

Will be interesting to hear if he did...but often, the seedling would not match a parent like that. Since its an abnormality, it would be propagated through grafting or rooted cuttings. Introducing other genetic material into the seed means that recessive trait will probably not carry through. But some oddities will carry through.

 

[evo]

Were you able to get a seedling from it?

Nope, i doubt the tree is flowering or producing all. I’d have to look up if they are self fertile or not. The tree is little, maybe 6’ and 1.5” cal

 

[Matias]

That's a really cool looking tree! I wonder if a cutting would root...

 

[Waldo]

Those are notoriously hard to graft. One of my favorite oaks, I would kill for a seedling of one. I have a client with one and it has produced acorns, but they all came out without the cut leaf.

 

[Treezybreez]

Those are notoriously hard to graft. One of my favorite oaks, I would kill for a seedling of one. I have a client with one and it has produced acorns, but they all came out without the cut leaf.

Probably need to cut scions and keep them refrigerated until the sap flow. Then graft onto an appropriate rootstock.

 

[Basswood]

Q. dentata! Daimyo or Japanese Emperor Oak. I’ve seen them only a few times in the NE, super cool tree. Kind of looks like it’s perpetually stricken by lacebug the way the leaf tissue looks and feels.

 

[evo]

Q. dentata! Daimyo or Japanese Emperor Oak. I’ve seen them only a few times in the NE, super cool tree. Kind of looks like it’s perpetually stricken by lacebug the way the leaf tissue looks and feels.

Thanks for the confirmation. How big are the ones you work on?

 

[Basswood]

Thanks for the confirmation. How big are the ones you work on?

Never worked on one, but saw one a few months ago on the Umass Amherst campus. Pretty far north for them to my understanding. It was in the 15’ range.