Identifying Oaks

[WDH]

Vanilla oak .  Sure isn't strawberry or raspberry .  Ahh, look at that revolute leaf.  Look at that significant color contrast between the upper side and lower side.  Look at that knobby acorn cup.  Sure looks like a lively specimen to me .

[Mooseherder]

What a lively description.

[SwampDonkey]

I was just noticing on my white oak tree that I have a lot of tiny undeveloped acorns about 1/8" wide. I did not see any male pollen flowers on the tree this spring. So, I am assuming these acorns will be aborted with the leaves. The leaves are definitely white oak and dark green above, paler below, no pubescence. I know it is not bur oak. The tree came from southern NH (Exitor) as a seedling. It has beautiful scarlet foliage in the fall, much more colorful than our native red oak.

[limbrat]

Are the live oaks in dry central texas the same as the live oaks along the southeastern coast?

[WDH]

NO!!!!!!

Have you ever seen an oak branch that was twice as long as the tree is tall .

[Lanier_Lurker]

I have!!

[Lanier_Lurker]

In Lee County, GA.

On the northern edge of the southeastern live oak range.

I used to climb that sucker when I was a kid.

You could run flat out along the limbs on this thing.  It was one fun tree to climb on.

[SwampDonkey]

Have you ever seen an oak branch that was twice as long as the tree is tall .

Sounds like suckered beech in heavy shade. Or pasture grown tamarack. 

[limbrat]

Maybe i have seen them longer than the tree is tall for sure. Long enough to touch the ground twenty ft. from the tip. there are some on Avery Isle like that.
The reason i asked was cause i vaguely remember a interview with Barbra Bush George seniors wife.Were she had chose one of them tortured looking oaks to plant in washington, but was told that in the wetter climate it would not grow the way that she expected.So she picked something else.