Oak leaves and acorns

[Blue Oaks]

Here's a picture that shows the leaves and acorns from the three types of oaks that grow on my property. The top is the Valley Oak, the lower left is the Live Oak, and the lower right is the Blue Oak. A lot of people look at a Blue Oak and call it a Valley Oak, but as you can see from the leaves they're quite different.

What do the oak leaves in your neck of the woods look like?

 

[Abbeville TSI]

Here in Virginia, none of mine look like those! Interesting acorns and leaves. White and red oaks mostly around here.

 

[husky455rancher]

That bottom left acorn looks like it could punture tires!

 

[Lightning Performance]

NJ has just about every kind of oak in NA from people bringing them in.

That one on the lower left in your pic we see as an ornamental once in a while. They are called holly oaks around here. The red (several varieties), white, pin (several), shumard and more are common near my house but as you head east toward the pines you see more varieties such as chinkapin, post, overcup, white, white hybrids, chestnut, black plus a few more that elude me at preset. No water oaks are naturally occurring around these parts or southern live oaks they call them down yonder. Those are closely related to our laurel bushes I'd guess.

This explains it better than I do.
https://www.plantsnap.com/plantblog/types-of-oak-trees/
Sorry no pics on this device.

 

[joecoin]

I've got oaks that look similar to your Blue Oak. Don't know what we call them.
Also have lots of Pin Oak and some few White Oak. North central Ohio,

Oak wilt is on the rise here.

 

[alanbaker]

Cool! always like to see trees that do not grow in my area. The bottom two leaves I would not have guess a oaks. Interesting acrons.

 

[barebunns]

Here's a picture that shows the leaves and acorns from the three types of oaks that grow on my property. The top is the Valley Oak, the lower left is the Live Oak, and the lower right is the Blue Oak. A lot of people look at a Blue Oak and call it a Valley Oak, but as you can see from the leaves they're quite different.

What do the oak leaves in your neck of the woods look like? If you need more oak firewood in the future plant a bunch of acorns and in 20 30 years you should have som e big oak trees to cut down for firewood

 

[barebunns]

plant a bunch of acorns and in 20 25 years plus you shoul;d have some large oak trees to be cut down for\firewood

 

[olyman]

plant a bunch of acorns and in 20 25 years plus you shoul;d have some large oak trees to be cut down for\firewood

which you will want for free,, cut, split, and stacked,,,,covered up also,,so it wont get wet

 

[Blue Oaks]

I've got about 75 oaks on my property that range from 1 to 250 years old. I've only cut down a couple that were in the way or just skinny and worthless aesthetically. I have no desire to cut them down for firewood. Occasionally one will blow down but they're usually rotten to do that.

 

[Seachaser]

plant a bunch of acorns and in 20 25 years plus you shoul;d have some large oak trees to be cut down for\firewood

Hardwoods are once in a lifetime harvest. I leave them standing unless they need thinning. We have water oaks, red oaks, and a few swamp chestnut oaks. I’ve planted white oaks, sawtooths, and live oaks. Sawtooths start bearing around age 7-8. The rest takes about 15 or more years. I planted these for deer hunting. Water oaks grow everywhere.

 

[freeasaburt]

Seems like there's quite some different species in the States, I had no idea really.

We have a non-native, even invasive species here in Western Europa (that is more succesful than our native oak species, it competes them 'out'), we call 'American oak', just looked it up on wikipedia and apparently its Latin name is Quercus rubra.

Our native species, or at least the ones I know, are Quercus Robur (called summer oak here, apparently also called common or English oak, internationally) and Quercus petraea (winter oak, aka sessile oak, Cornish oak, Irish Oak or durmast oak).

 

[Blue Oaks]

That's certainly a leaf pattern I've never seen on an oak.

 

[freeasaburt]

"It is a native of North America, in the eastern and central United States and southeast and south-central Canada", according to Wikipedia; it's also mentioned that it is often called 'Red Oak'. Probably because its leaves get a pretty red color in autumn.
It grows pretty fast and its thick canopy blocks off too much sunlight for stuff to grow under it.