Oak id please

[Teeder]

Be interested in seeing pictures. Bark and branches, too.

 

[Hoytvectrix]

Is this just a standard SWO? This is in Northern MO.

 

[Teeder]

It looks like swo from here. What do the branches look like?

 

[Hoytvectrix]

It looks like swo from here. What do the branches look like?

 

[Teeder]

I'm going with SWO.

 

[T-Max]

Alright, got a good one here. This tree is in a park in the neighboring town. It looks like more than a standard bur oak to me. The contrast between the front of the leaf and back is far more distinct than the burs we normally have. The form of the tree also looks different to me. The limbs have a different texture and the acorn protrudes from the cap more than any other bur oak around here. When you get it out of the cap, it just looks like a SWO. I took the pics on a drizzly day, but the day before the bark also seems much lighter than bur oak. Some sort of cross? Or just a bur with abnormal features?

 

[b116757]

I do think there is some variation in Bur oak acorns in the depth of cap and some of them even have a shallow enough cap that some of the acorns fall free. Those are the Bur oak acorns I’d plant if I were to plant Bur oaks for deer particularly on large acorns but I could be completely wrong and the deer chew threw the large caps to get to the acorns no problem idk. This is why I normally don’t plant Bur oaks in my deer orchards.

 

[Mozark]

Probably the closest I've come to finding a Schuettes and it has no acorns....View attachment 56474

I was finally able to get a few acorns from this tree, looks like swampxburr.

 

[Teeder]

Getting close to acorn collecting time again!
I'm hoping for some swamp chestnut acorns off a tree I planted 20+ years ago. Possibly a couple from the schuette's in my front yard, too.

 

[bwoods11]

I picked up about 500 Bur Oak acorns today in MN …

 

[BuckSutherland]

Getting close to acorn collecting time again!
I'm hoping for some swamp chestnut acorns off a tree I planted 20+ years ago. Possibly a couple from the schuette's in my front yard, too.

I have been starting to look at some of the local swamp white oaks the past week. Seems to be a favorable crop coming. I am hoping to hit the MN landscape arboretum next weekend to collect some pure white oak acorns so I can direct seed them on my land over labor day. Hope I can find a couple dozen.

 

[OakSeeds]

Alright, got a good one here. This tree is in a park in the neighboring town. It looks like more than a standard bur oak to me. The contrast between the front of the leaf and back is far more distinct than the burs we normally have. The form of the tree also looks different to me. The limbs have a different texture and the acorn protrudes from the cap more than any other bur oak around here. When you get it out of the cap, it just looks like a SWO. I took the pics on a drizzly day, but the day before the bark also seems much lighter than bur oak. Some sort of cross? Or just a bur with abnormal features?View attachment 68716View attachment 68717View attachment 68718View attachment 68719View attachment 68720

The bark on that tree, it's deep green leaf topside and - especially the silvery light color of the leaf underside all suggest a bur-swamp white oak cross (Schuttes oak). Ya'll better grab some off that tree this fall; sorry to be almost a year late in responding ... just saw the post.

https://mortonarb.org/plant-and-protect/trees-and-plants/swamp-white-oak/ ... be sure to read the description!
check the leaf top ... https://kb.jniplants.com/hybrid-swamp-bur-oak-quercus-schuettei

 

[b116757]

Yes acorn collecting time is getting closer I was inspecting some oaks this afternoon that I collect from normally.