Author Topic: Indentifying Hardwoods, uses and properties (Read 63761 times)

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #20 on:** January 06, 2009, 05:49:50 AM »

I merged Qweaver's thread into this thread.

cheers

Texas Ranger · « **Reply #21 on:** March 03, 2013, 04:21:54 PM »

You southren boys should know this one.

doctorb · « **Reply #22 on:** March 03, 2013, 06:37:41 PM »

Southern Red Oak?? Doesn't it come in a five lobed leaf variety as well?

Todd · « **Reply #23 on:** March 03, 2013, 07:54:12 PM »

It's a ruler!

doctorb · « **Reply #24 on:** March 03, 2013, 08:50:31 PM »

WDH · « **Reply #25 on:** March 03, 2013, 08:59:04 PM »

I will defer to some other southern or even northern boys

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Dodgy Loner · « **Reply #26 on:** March 04, 2013, 11:00:19 AM »

I'll defer to doctorb, since he answered correctly.

Texas Ranger · « **Reply #27 on:** March 04, 2013, 11:44:09 AM »

The good doctor has southern genes in there some where.

Dodgy Loner · « **Reply #28 on:** March 04, 2013, 12:23:39 PM »

Yep, that leaf looks curiously similar to a turkey oak leaf, but the long petiole gives it away!

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #29 on:** March 04, 2013, 12:30:53 PM »

Those little details.

doctorb · « **Reply #30 on:** March 04, 2013, 05:34:53 PM »

Quote from: Dodgy Loner on March 04, 2013, 12:23:39 PM

Yep, that leaf looks curiously similar to a turkey oak leaf, but the long petiole gives it away!

1. That's the first "tree" question I've ever answered correctly here. Even a blind squirrell finds an acorn...

2. But now I've got to research both the turkey oak and the petiole, as I haven't a clue about either.

Texas Ranger · « **Reply #31 on:** March 04, 2013, 05:41:46 PM »

Ah, doc, we will have you enrolled in forestry classes before long. Then it will be corks, tin pants, plaid shirts, and a double

bit ax on your shoulder.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #32 on:** March 04, 2013, 05:55:17 PM »

I'm thinking Doc's looking forward to a trip to his camp about now.

WDH · « **Reply #33 on:** March 04, 2013, 07:58:17 PM »

I hate to be a dissenter, but I believe that it is what was once thought to be a variety of southern red oak, cherrybark oak. The base does not have that "bell shaped" roundness that is typical of southern red oak. The Doc still takes the cake, though

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SwampDonkey · « **Reply #34 on:** March 04, 2013, 08:33:44 PM »

We'll stamp'er red oak, good enough.

WDH · « **Reply #35 on:** March 04, 2013, 08:36:44 PM »

You must be a lumper

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SwampDonkey · « **Reply #36 on:** March 04, 2013, 08:46:42 PM »

A lump er a bump on a log. Maybe even a knothole.

doctorb · « **Reply #37 on:** March 04, 2013, 10:33:17 PM »

Quote from: WDH on March 04, 2013, 07:58:17 PM

I hate to be a dissenter, but I believe that it is what was once thought to be a variety of southern red oak, cherrybark oak. The base does not have that "bell shaped" roundness that is typical of southern red oak. The Doc still takes the cake, though .

Well, I do not mind being corrected, but, if it was once thought to be cherrybark oak, what's it thought to be now?

WDH · « **Reply #38 on:** March 05, 2013, 07:17:45 AM »

Back when I was in school, Cherrybark oak was considered a variety of Southern Red oak. A while back, it was accorded species status. The distinctions between the two are very very small.

Dodgy Loner · « **Reply #39 on:** March 05, 2013, 09:32:29 PM »

You may be right, Danny, but that shape is not atypical of southern red oak in my experience. A three-lobed leaf is, however, atypical of cherrybark oak, at least from what I have seen. Not unheard of, but not typical. Which is why I think it's southern red.

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