Tree Of The Week: Let Us Take A Look
This week let us do some sleuthing. I came upon this tree yesterday in Orrville, Ohio in the Smucker’s Fitness Walk path. The leaf told me something, but first, let us look at the tell-tale terminal buds: clustered.
This is typical of oaks, the genus Quercus.
And the leaves obviously suggest oak-hood, in this case with rounded lobes without a bristle tip, thus the…
White oak group
Oaks in the white oak group tend to hybridize freely, unlike with the black or red oak group (pin oaks, black oaks, scarlet...