Trees from a distance

[Blinky]

Post oak dude! Q. stellata

 

[easyphloem]

Is it a Post Oak?


SZ

 

[Blinky]

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Is it a Post Oak?


SZ

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HA! I totally smoked you on that one!

 

[easyphloem]

Yes Blinky.


You totally smoked me....but we don't know for sure if you were right (first).


SZ

 

[Blinky]

It's definitely a post oak. Booyah and all that.

 

[easyphloem]

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It's definitely a post oak. Booyah and all that.

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I hope you choke on that Boo-Ya.



SZ

 

[jerseygirl]

SZ the DUDE is wrong

BUT you are incorrect

 

[Blinky]

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SZ the DUDE is wrong

BUT you are incorrect

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Come again?

 

[theXman]

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SZ the DUDE is wrong

BUT you are incorrect

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i don't understand this either, but that can't be a post oak, i just saw a big one 6 months ago and no similarity.

That's a big one, but the bark still looks like Rock Oak to me. but i wonder with such size.

 

[Blinky]

I've got post oaks everywhere around here, second only to whites and willow oaks. The branch structure without foliage is spot on but now that I look closer at the bark, I must be wr... wrrro... wrooon... I can't say it.

I'm having my booyah with a cup of coffee.

...smoked booyah, that is.

 

[theXman]

 

[trees4ever]

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quercus is right - BUT what type

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OK, since it seems my water oak guess was incorrect I'll try Shumard oak (Quercus shumardii)?

-Diane-

 

[JeffL]

Quercus variablis? Haha

 

[jerseygirl]

INN CORRECT

gee - i only thought you all talked smack at the comps. this is getting to be just as much fun.

EXCEPT i have to also know the tree to post a tree, So I am learning more. More with the leaves then profile and shape.

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL tree and anyone that wants to climb it can join me. It now has leaves and setting a line is a little more fun.

 

[Blinky]

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INN CORRECT

gee - i only thought you all talked smack at the comps. this is getting to be just as much fun.

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Nope, talk smack everywhere, all the time... we're too macho to communicate normally.

Q. velutina, the venerable Black Oak...

...which is a red... oak... what's with that? How can it be two colors at once?

 

[jerseygirl]

many things are confusing - black oaks that are red, White oaks that have green leaves, Southerns that grow ABOVE the MD line that just BEG to be Northeren - oaks that are in the beech group - CONFUSING - as this tree is also.

ENJOY THE DAY - I will pick up some leaves, BUT i really do have great Bark photos in color and in shades of grey.

 

[HÖLLENREICH]

Quecus douglasii, blue oak

 

[JeffL]

Was willow oak used yet?

 

[theXman]

you're telling me my guess with rock oak is not right???

you Jersey people probably say Chestnut oak.

I'm talking Q. Prinus.

so many people are naming smooth barked oaks, i don't get it.

 

[theXman]

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many things are confusing - black oaks that are red, White oaks that have green leaves, Southerns that grow ABOVE the MD line that just BEG to be Northeren - oaks that are in the beech group - CONFUSING - as this tree is also.

ENJOY THE DAY - I will pick up some leaves, BUT i really do have great Bark photos in color and in shades of grey.

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black and red naturally hybridize, so I was taught, making a very confusing tree.

yeah, i always wondered about beech and oak in the same family, that never made sense to me, i always wondered if they classified them wrong and one day will change it.