What kind of oak is this?

[Calibogue]

Shumard are very site specific trees.
If it's in a creek bottom that floods often, it's likely NOT a Shumard.
I have quite a few and they grow almost exclusively only on the slopes of swamp edge in very well drained soil.
I have seen them just off the slope into the edge of the swamp but that is not the norm.

[JimmyD714]

Haha, corn pile hunters can't identify an oak tree.

The leaves look like a red oak, not a shumard.

Shumard leaves are shaped so that the widest part is near the tip. Northern Red Oak leaves are more oval shaped, the widest part is near the middle of the leaf.

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[Calibogue]

Shumard is a red oak you dipshit.

[JimmyD714]

Shumard is a red oak you dipshit.

Bless your heart. Name calling on an internet forum.

I specifically said Northern Red Oak and Shumard Oak as they are two different trees. They can be identified by looking at the leaves.

It's obvious why you work for government.

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[SCSwitchback]

Northern red
Should be dropping in 2 weeks

Or as our friends to the south say, “Northern Rojo.”

[coonsqualler01]

I love this place. Carry on men.

[Calibogue]

Sorry Jimmy boy, I do not and have not ever worked for the GOV.
I'll just sit back and see if I can glean some dendro knowledge from you going forward.

[quackaddict]

Could it be a lost pin oak?


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[Timberman22]

Jimmy, I have to ask...do you call a Swamp Chestnut Oak a "White Oak"?

[Sportin' Woodies]

Quercua wholelotta

[Calibogue]

Wholelotta bullshit....

[TheVisorGuy]

Haha, corn pile hunters can't identify an oak tree.

The leaves look like a red oak, not a shumard.

Shumard leaves are shaped so that the widest part is near the tip. Northern Red Oak leaves are more oval shaped, the widest part is near the middle of the leaf.

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You’re an idiot.

I’ve always saw red oaks grown on high ground and the small handful of shumards I have seen have always been in low lying areas with sandier soils which this one is.

[TheVisorGuy]

My first thought was red but like I said I just never see one doing as well as this one does in a bottom area

[JimmyD714]

Yall are quite a sensitive bunch this afternoon. Need some vagasil?

I clearly was making a joke, and I also clearly distinguished between a Northern Red Oak and a Shumard Oak by mentioning the difference in leaves. Yes, they're both in the red oak family, but they are two different types.

Visor Guy calling me an idiot, then proceeding to use incorrect grammar in the next sentence, is what makes this site so great.

"I've always saw red oaks...." haha

I'm actually impressed he spelled "you're" correctly for that usage. Normally I'd expect, "your an idiot."

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[smitch320]

Sorry Jimmy boy, I do not and have not ever worked for the GOV.
I'll just sit back and see if I can glean some dendro knowledge from you going forward.

C’mon Cali you got to ask Jimmy before you can identify trees LOL

[Kioti]

Bingo , when I took dendrology at NCSU my professor always said look at the base of the leaf if it’s pointed then it’s in the red oak family if the base is rounded like the “southern bell” then it’s a southern red oak. Both are high in tanons (sp) so deer don’t prefer them. Coolest oak I have ever found was on a tract I used to hunt in Columbia it had a grove of three huge swamp chestnut oaks and trust me you don’t want to be under it when the acorns are fallling

I know where a grove of those are and you are correct. The nuts look like Cadbury eggs.

[mohill]

It’s a shumard oak. There is no other oak in our area that has hairy tufts where the leaf vein and mid rib of the leaf meet. This can be seen by zooming in on leaves in the pic. Also the extremely deep sinuses of the leaf give it away as well. Smooth bark with vertical runs, and located in a bottom area all point to Shumard oak.

[Sportin' Woodies]

Northern red would have more diamond patterns n bark. I was wrong

[TheVisorGuy]

Yall are quite a sensitive bunch this afternoon. Need some vagasil?

I clearly was making a joke, and I also clearly distinguished between a Northern Red Oak and a Shumard Oak by mentioning the difference in leaves. Yes, they're both in the red oak family, but they are two different types.

Visor Guy calling me an idiot, then proceeding to use incorrect grammar in the next sentence, is what makes this site so great.

"I've always saw red oaks...." haha

I'm actually impressed he spelled "you're" correctly for that usage. Normally I'd expect, "your an idiot."

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Sorry…”I’ve always seent”

[quack head 11]

I dont believe that is a northenr red oak. Northern would have more vertical grayish lines on the bark.

It has the bark of a scarlet oak, but the leaves look like a Black oak. Which is why I was trying to verify that the majority of the leaves were indeed connected to tree in question.