Weekly Tree ID Picture Quiz

Re: Weekly Tree ID Picture Quiz#2

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Re: Weekly Tree ID Picture Quiz#2

sawtooth oak Fagaceae Quercus acutissima Carruthers

Leaf: Alternate, simple, lanceolate in shape, 3 to 7 inches long, pinnately veined with a very sharply serrate margin bearing bristle-tipped teeth. Strongly resembles a Castanea leaf.
Flower: Male catkins are golden and pendant, appearing in the spring; female catkins are borne on spikes, appearing with the leaves.
Fruit: Acorns are oval in shape. Cap covers 1/2 of nut with scales very prominently reflexed - resembles hair. Among the first acorns to ripen in the fall after two years.
Twig: Quite slender, red to gray-brown in color with multiple terminal buds; buds are gray-brown, pubescent on the bud scale edges and somewhat pyramidal.
Bark: Ridged and furrowed even when young, later deeply ridged and furrowed, somewhat corky.
Form: A small to medium size tree that forms a dense pyramidal crown that rounds with age.
 
Re: Weekly Tree ID Picture Quiz#2

Why here it is.................

<font color="red">Quercus acutissima.......... Sawtooth Oak

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Only 3 buzzers had the correct answer.

KentuckySawyer

SpaceGhost

JerseyGirl


The three of you, will be added to the others, for July's drawing.

Sorry Rich H, your answer of " Quercus photoshoppus var. Rattii " was incorrect.
Let's do better next time.


Stay tuned for this weeks tree.
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