Author Topic: Curious beeked critter with spines and big teeth. (Solved: American Beech) (Read 1553 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.

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