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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 11:13 AM
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Can you identify trees by their leaves? If so, help, please . . .
Edited on Fri Nov-10-06 11:16 AM by bertha katzenengel
Can you identify these for me? Finding a way to do this by Googling is (for me, :dunce: maybe) like pulling teeth.



Maybe all - except for the pointy oval - are from the same kind of tree, I don't know. Let's call them "big red leaf," "little red leaf," "light brown leaves," "dark brown leaves."

Thanks. Me :dunce:
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 11:14 AM
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1. oak mostly
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 11:16 AM
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4. thanks, matcom
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Blue State Blues Donating Member (575 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 11:14 AM
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2. Look like oak
Edited on Fri Nov-10-06 11:15 AM by Blue State Blues
but I'm no expert. Does the tree also have acorns?

spelling edit
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 11:15 AM
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3. yep, lots of 'em
thanks
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Bodineian Donating Member (35 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 11:21 AM
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6. Leaves
The smaller oval shaped one i think is a sweet gum leaf.

The others apparently Red Oak
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Blue State Blues Donating Member (575 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 11:23 AM
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7. I'm pretty sure your oak is a pin oak
the spear shaped leaves look a bit like ornamental cherry (like Yoshino). I'm not sure about the heart shaped leaf in the upper rt corner, though.
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SacredCow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 11:18 AM
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5. the "jagged" ones are most likely oaks...
the oval ones aren't, though. They could be any number of things.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 11:26 AM
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8. Looks like an oak, definitely not a white oak
White oaks have round ends like the white man's bullets

Red oaks have pointy ends like the red man's arrows.

That's the old memory trick I was taught.
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joneschick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 11:36 AM
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9. a lovely red oak
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