Barry- Yes, pin oaks are in the black/red oak group. The direction of the thread shifted somewhat with the ID from photographs of a different tree, which was in the white oak group.
Steve On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Barry Caselli <[email protected]>wrote: > I thought Pin Oak was in the Black Oak Group, not the White Oak Group. From > what I've seen, the leaves resemble those of Black or Scarlet, but with more > "lobes" on each side than either of those species. I don't have any in my > collection, or I'd show the leaves I'm referring to, although I'm pretty > sure I've seen the leaves in Egg Harbor City recently. > > --- On *Fri, 11/6/09, [email protected] <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Two nice Pin Oaks, Bay Village, Ohio > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 5:42 PM > > > Steve, > Splendid pictures of attractive pin oaks. Pins are very common in the > Connecticut River Valley. I see many that are between 8 and 11 feet in girth > and 85 to 105 feet tall. An occasional pin oak reaches to 13 to 14 feet > around. An equally small population reaches to 110 feet in height. The pin > oak seemed to have been a preferred shade tree along the streets of many > northeastern cities. > > Today I photographed an oak in Look Park. The first three attached images > show the trunk. The last two images show leaves from the same tree. What are > the choices? The tree actually looks like a combination of swamp white oak, > swamp chestnut oak, bur oak, and white oak. The tree looks to be fairly old. > It grows close to a native woodland, but appears to be planted. > > Bob > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Galehouse" <[email protected]> > To: "ENTS" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 6, 2009 6:23:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [ENTS] Two nice Pin Oaks, Bay Village, Ohio > > ENTS- > > Pin oaks are the most common oak in my area, but they seem to be relatively > uncommon in much of the East. For those that only know the tree as a young, > rigidly pyramidal landscape specimen, I thought I would show some pics of > how they mature. The tree on the left is 101' x 12'7'', the right one is 89' > x 13'3''. Lake Erie visible in baackground. > > Steve > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to > [email protected]<entstrees%[email protected]> > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to > [email protected]<entstrees%[email protected]> > -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
