Author Topic: Curious beeked critter with spines and big teeth. (Solved: American Beech) (Read 1551 times)

SwampDonkey · « **on:** August 05, 2008, 06:11:09 am »

That's all your get'n.

Radar67 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 05, 2008, 08:13:14 am »

Here is a WAG, chestnut?

Dodgy Loner · « **Reply #2 on:** August 05, 2008, 09:32:36 am »

I believe you've got the right family, but the wrong genus

beenthere · « **Reply #3 on:** August 05, 2008, 09:41:38 am »

Reminds me of Chinquapin oak.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #4 on:** August 05, 2008, 09:42:14 am »

Bud and petioles.

beenthere · « **Reply #5 on:** August 05, 2008, 09:50:51 am »

So now a sawtooth oak....any more pics?

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #6 on:** August 05, 2008, 09:53:45 am »

Leaf margins.

Radar67 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 05, 2008, 10:21:55 am »

Chestnut oak then (Quercus prinus)

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #8 on:** August 05, 2008, 11:16:49 am »

Keep trying.

WDH · « **Reply #9 on:** August 05, 2008, 12:06:14 pm »

I think that I fagot that one

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Timburr · « **Reply #10 on:** August 05, 2008, 01:38:30 pm »

And I went all the way to the end of the land to discover this one!

Lanier_Lurker · « **Reply #11 on:** August 05, 2008, 02:04:14 pm »

Fagus grandifolia

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #12 on:** August 05, 2008, 03:16:49 pm »

Yeah, and in that last picture I had to use a leaf as a background because those tufts of axillary hairs don't show up with a white background too well.

WDH · « **Reply #13 on:** August 05, 2008, 04:33:58 pm »

Yes, those axillary hairs can be quite difficult. Sometimes, they just need a good talking to. "If y'all don't behave, I will have to dehisce your peduncles and truncate your apical meristems........". That usually gets them to cooperate better

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Of course, sometimes those axillary tuft's behavior is dependent on whether they are on shady beeches or sunny beeches

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SwampDonkey · « **Reply #14 on:** August 05, 2008, 05:27:59 pm »

Yeah, reminds me of a hickory discussion.

Lanier_Lurker · « **Reply #15 on:** August 05, 2008, 09:04:08 pm »

Quote from: SwampDonkey on August 05, 2008, 09:42:14 am

Bud and petioles.

I had the distinct pleasure of playing "petiole" for an 87 point bingo in computer Scrabble today - - - while I was at work.

I won the game too. 387 to 345

WDH · « **Reply #16 on:** August 05, 2008, 09:08:24 pm »

See all the cool things that we can learn here

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Lanier_Lurker · « **Reply #17 on:** August 05, 2008, 09:47:33 pm »

I also had the distinct *displeasure* of playing the word "adelgid" for an apparent bingo in another game of Scrabble - - only to discover that (inexplicably

) it is not in the Scrabble dictionary.

I am still angry about that.....and even more so when I look up the word on http://dictionary.com and there it is for all to see.

Lanier_Lurker · « **Reply #18 on:** August 05, 2008, 09:48:35 pm »

Swampy, here the Georgia boys go hijacking threads again........

Lanier_Lurker · « **Reply #19 on:** August 05, 2008, 09:50:41 pm »

As for your "beaked critters", I have seen them by the hundreds on my steps down to the lake. I have several mature beeches down close to the edge of the lake.

WDH · « **Reply #20 on:** August 05, 2008, 09:54:12 pm »

Quote from: SwampDonkey on August 05, 2008, 09:42:14 am

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Bud and petioles.

Wow, look at those stipular scars!. I have always been a stipule man

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Lanier_Lurker · « **Reply #21 on:** August 05, 2008, 10:00:41 pm »

Those buds are more blunt than the buds on my beeches.

Mine look like the end of an icepick or awl.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #22 on:** August 06, 2008, 04:33:13 am »

They aren't hardened off yet and I think by the look of those stipule scares and recent shoot elongation, she was a slow growing branch. A more opportune position in the crown and the buds are much bigger and pointier.

Dodgy Loner · « **Reply #23 on:** August 06, 2008, 08:15:56 am »

I have been training a 4-H Forestry Team for the last couple of weeks, and beech was one of the trees we learned last week. I wanted to show them how to ID beech by the long, pointy buds, but alas, they were still short and stumpy like SD's. We will have to wait until fall before I can teach them that fantastic identification characteristic (although I'm sure my enthusiasm will be met with a chorus of groans

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SwampDonkey · « **Reply #24 on:** August 06, 2008, 09:16:09 am »

Those hairs on the beech are much more prominent in the spring with shoot elongation.

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