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Ted Christiansen
06-20-2006, 10:53 PM
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
06-20-2006, 11:05 PM
As far as oaks go, I'd say based on the trunk it looks to me like chestnut oak.
Cliff Rohrabacher
06-21-2006, 11:04 AM
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
06-21-2006, 1:57 PM
That looks like free wood that would make great lumber or bowl blanks :D
Dick Strauss
06-21-2006, 2:39 PM
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
06-21-2006, 11:48 PM
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
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