oaks

[Trayboone]

is a cow oak and a white oak and a post oak the same tree? if not which has
bigger acorns?

 

[Treeman14]

The use of common names for trees can be a bit confusing because people in different areas may have the same name for different trees as well as different names for the same tree. The post oak, Quercus stellata and the white oak, Quercus alba have acorns of roughly the same size. I've never heard of a cow oak.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Then to confuse things further genus Quercus is devided in to tree "subgenus" red/black. white and live oaks. I won't even try to spell one of those. I think Dirr has it.

 

[monkeypuzzle]

Generally the reds will have leaves with pointed lobes and the whites usually have the rounded lobes.Hey Sanborn, isn't it Whites and Reds?

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Depends on the book you read, many call the red the red/black group, I have a 55 year old ID book that has this. The period is a typo ('magin that).

I understand they decided to put the live oak into a seperate group not too long ago