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General Forestry => Tree, Plant and Wood I.D. => Topic started by: swampwhiteoak on June 26, 2002, 07:14:34 PM

Title: Solved:Swamp White Oak
Post by: swampwhiteoak on June 26, 2002, 07:14:34 PM
I'll give details if asked, but this shouldn't be too hard. ;)
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Title: Re: Common Black Swamp tree
Post by: Texas Ranger on June 26, 2002, 08:12:49 PM
Cow oak in Texas, or Basket Oak to the Indians.
Title: Re: Common Black Swamp tree
Post by: CHARLIE on June 26, 2002, 10:33:00 PM
Don, I can see how you might think it is a Quercus michauxii Nuttall.....but I don't think it is.

Based on the leaf shape it has to be
Quercus bicolor Willdenow or.......Swamp White Oak :o

Is that right Swampwhiteoak?  What do I win? Huh? Huh?
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Title: Re: Common Black Swamp tree
Post by: swampwhiteoak on June 27, 2002, 06:07:23 AM
Charlie is the winner!   You win the satisfaction of knowing you got it right.   :D
Title: Re: Solved:Swamp White Oak
Post by: CHARLIE on June 27, 2002, 10:19:05 AM
Am I smart or what!  DonT answer that! ;D
Title: Re: Solved:Swamp White Oak
Post by: Texas Ranger on June 27, 2002, 04:40:38 PM
Sorry, Charlie (no play on tuna  8)) but Quercus michauxii isn't found that much in Texas, those are the local names for Swamp White Oak.  :P

I know, it's a Texas thang.  
Title: Re: Solved:Swamp White Oak
Post by: CHARLIE on June 27, 2002, 10:46:21 PM
Hmmmmm Don..... :P  My source says Swamp Chestnut Oak is also known as Basket Oak and Cow Oak. It's latin name is Quercus michauxii Nuttall.  It's range is in the pan handle of Florida, most of Georgia (not in the mountains) up the east coast of the U.S.  All of Alabama and Mississippi, most of Louisiana and just a smidgen over the border into eastern Texas.  Maybe Basket and Cow Oak is laymen terminology that applies to more than one type of Oak. ::)
Title: Re: Solved:Swamp White Oak
Post by: Texas Ranger on June 29, 2002, 03:07:05 PM
Exactly right Charlie, we also have pin oak, which has nothing to do with the northern pin oak.  names from the east gathered west and fit on new stems.