ID this oak?

[bstewert]

Thanks in advance:

 

[Paul B]

Rubra?

 

[Koala]

I would say quercus rubra.

 

[bstewert]

Northern Red Oak. That looks like it, thanks.

http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=38

According to the maps, it must have hitched a ride out to the West Coast.

http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrolog...ily&genus=Quercus&species=rubra&USDAcode=QURU

 

[gf beranek]

leaf resembles a black oak. though the trunk is another thing.

 

[Al Smith]

That was a pic of a baby one probabley purchased as a saplng from a nursery .

 

[Al Smith]

This is what the bark on a mature northern red oak looks like.

 

[bstewert]

All the pics of Northern Red Oak show the fall leaves to be more red. This one has a lot of yellow and orange, almost no red.

 

[Al Smith]

Well that just depends on where you're at and can vary from year to year .I just took a peek outside my house and the white oaks are more redish while the red oaks are more orange /yellow .We just had the first killing frost last night now the colors will change dramatically in the next few days .

Hmmf I'll be knee deep in the darned leaves within the week no doubt .

 

[Koala]

Even here red oaks' leaves are more orange/ yellow. Many are still green . Depends from the area.

took these pics this afternoon.

 

[Al Smith]

Well firstly you have to remember you're in a more temperant climate than here in the lake states .In addition the soil conditions could determine the coloration and perhaps many other factors .

A few pics the next few posts .This one is a white oak,obviously the larger with a shagbark hickory in the fore ground and a sugar maple behind .The hickory is bald .The white oak has the nest of a red tail hawk in it which had nestlings earlier

 

[Al Smith]

Next is a pin oak

 

[Al Smith]

Another white oak with a red oak in the background which is hard to see but the leaves are about the color of a sugar maple .

 

[Al Smith]

Closer view of white oak leaves

 

[Koala]

Are those trees around your house? seems like a very nice place.

The white oak has the nest of a red tail hawk in it which had nestlings earlier

You're lucky. Do you have any pictureof the hawk?

 

[Al Smith]

Yes they are .I've got a bunch of rather large trees both around the house plus in the woods .

I saw the hawks earlier in the spring but it was hard to see the nest when the trees were in full folage .I suppose the nestlings have left by now .I never actually saw the chicks but what must have been the male bird would land every so often with something for I assume the female to eat while she incubated the eggs .Those bird birds are really kind of smart about hiding the nest so they aren't in plane view .

 

[woodworkingboy]

Al has a cool place.

 

[Al Smith]

Oh say I was in the woods today looking at a dead oak I'm going to drop and danged if the biggest hawk I've ever seen in my life went soaring overhead .Riding the air currents like a buzzard .I thought it was a buzzard at first but the damned thing looked as big as an eagle .The red tail told the tale .That sucker looked big enough to snatch a small dog .

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I love fall.. It really is one of my favorite times of year

 

[jefflovstrom@sb]

Thanks in advance:

California black oak, Quercus kelloggii.

 

[Al Smith]

As it turns out today my travels took me over about 40-50 miles of country roads . I had mentioned before this area has an abundance of oaks .It just so happens that in one half mile stretch I observed a red oak with red folage just like the white oak in front of my house .Then two white oaks close together both big bushy yard trees with spreading canopies ,80 footers .One red ,one yellow like a sugar maple .

So much for my theory of soil conditions and coloration .It looks more like just the luck of the draw .

 

[Paul B]

I still vote Quercus rubra but....

http://www.google.ca/search?q=querc...&biw=1555&bih=864&sei= B7ytTpyeIIHWiAKNybX2Cg

http://www.google.ca/search?q=querc...&biw=1555&bih=864&sei= 3LutTtzsA-3KiQLNmLHoCg

 

[sotc]

It would explain the yellow coloring

 

[CurSedVoyce]

The yellow maybe. But I rarely see the orange and red on one (kelloggii) and the bark does not look right. even for a youth.

 

[sotc]

I'm going to side with Jeff, I have seen some with bark like that. Any pics of cones Bob?