Tree Identification

[Ted Christiansen]

Hello,

Need some help identifying this tree located in Southeast Michigan. The bottom looks like oak, but the upper limbs are white.

I found another tree like it standing and there were acorns on the ground at the trunk so I think it is some kind of oak.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Ted Christiansen

[Jon Farley]

As far as oaks go, I'd say based on the trunk it looks to me like chestnut oak.

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

Is that thing that looks sort of like birch the upper white limb?

Have you got any pix of the leaves?? Often that's easier than the just bark when looking at a picture.


anyway there is a good set of chestnut oak pix here
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=76

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

That looks like free wood that would make great lumber or bowl blanks :D

[Dick Strauss]

Ted,
My best guess would be white oak. It might also be box elder from the bark pic. BE trees have unique leaves in a group of three that look like a crossbreed of maple and ash. These trees are actually part of the maple family.



http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/picts/anegundoleaf3.jpghttp://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/a/wacne2-wpsmall10897.JPG (http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/biohires/a/hacne2-wpsmall10897.JPG)

http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/a/wacne2-brlarge-tree13160.jpg (http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/image/a/acne2-brlarge-tree13160.htm)

[James Ayars]

The white oaks we have here do not have that crossing pattern in the bark. Nor does it look like our red or black oaks.
James