Help with Tree & Leaf ID

[ReggieT]

Visited a friends church and he was showing me some tree's he'd like for me to remove for him...cell phone was in the car and all I managed to do was to grab 3 different leaves from the accompanying tree's.
I'm still very fuzzy on tree ID...sure could use some expert help.

Thanks
Reg

  

 

[curdog]

1-  chestnut oak
2-?
3-southern red oak

[WDH]

1).  Swamp chestnut oak if the bark is very light gray and scaly like a white oak.  Chestnut oak if the bark is tight with deep fissures and no scales.

2).  Black Oak

3).  Yes.  Southern red oak.

[ReggieT]

I appreciate that.
Out of the 3 Oaks identified which one would you guys say has the highest BTU output?

[beenthere]

I appreciate that.
Out of the 3 Oaks identified which one would you guys say has the highest BTU output?

The one(s) that are growing the fastest,... as fast growth will be higher density in the oaks.

[WDH]

They will all have very good BTU output.  Hard to go wrong with oak. 

[Jemclimber]

Danny,
Can you elaborate on #2.  I thought Black oak was a red oak (pointy leaves).  It's hard for me to tell from that picture but it looks like a white oak of some sort.  Help me out?

[Jeff]

It doesn't look much like our black oak leave here either.

[WDH]

Shade black oak leaves are very odd shaped.  This appears to be a black oak shade leaf.  In the South, they are shaped all over the map.  Sorta blobby and sometimes oval-shaped.

Check out this old thread. 

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,25171.msg359793.html#msg359793

[ReggieT]

Wow...that was an outstanding thread...thanks.

[Jemclimber]

Thank you so much and thanks for the link to the other thread!!!!

[WDH]

Interesting to go back and read the old thread and see the number of member then that are no longer active today. 

[Jeff]

Interesting to go back and read the old thread and see the number of member then that are no longer active today.

---and also importantly, those that still are.... ;)

[Magicman]

And them that weren't......now is.   ;D

[ReggieT]

How about the number of members who've gone on to that "Higher Greener Forest?" 8) 8)

[Jeff]

That is a subject that I think about often. We know of several, but there are many I am sure we don't know about and never will.

[ReggieT]

I concur...