Elmore
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Hey thanks Guy but I am just guessing. I have a water oak that someone gave me and said it was a live oak hybrid and was puzzled about it for years until recently. It had similar leaves to that in question but is now a full blown water oak. I have seen many young trees, water oaks with immature pinnately lobed leaves resembling a willow oak. Typically they are broader, up to about 2" across. Willow oak has a more acute apex with a bristle at the tip and are narrower, up to 1" across. It does look much like Q. laurifolia, my next guess but I have none around here to compare to. The bark on a mature water oak is smooth and gray. If after about six years the leaves don't take on the spatulate form I would say that it is not Quercus nigra.treeseer said:If it ain't a ginkgo or a A. palmatum he's just another bozo on the bus. :umpkin: Just messin witcha brad.
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