Will and Steve, The oak cannot be Q. petraea 'Mesipilifolia'. The 'Mespilifolia' is a cultivar, thus all the individuals are ~identical. Here is a photo of 'Mespilifolia' leaves:
http://www.uspza.cz/obrazky5/13-dub_17_big.jpg You can see that the vein patterns are totally different. Unfortunately, I cannot help more. It is not any Japanese or west Asian/European species. What exists between those regions, is unknown to me. - Kouta On 30 marras, 17:31, Steve Galehouse <[email protected]> wrote: > Will- > > Possibly *Quercus petraea mespilifolia*, a variety of the Durmast oak, > native to Europe and western Asia. The sessile acorns seem to imply that > variety. > > Steve > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Will <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know this is the Eastern *Native* Tree society, but I wondered if any > > of you with knowledge of exotic species might help me with an ID. I found > > this oak yesterday (killing time while others were in the mall) on > > Savannah's southside on Abercorn Ext adjacent to the campus of Armstrong > > Atlantic Univ. I would assume it is probably an Asian Native as many of the > > nearby trees owe their existence to the former USDA Plant Introduction > > Station outside of Savannah known locally as the Old Bamboo Farm. This > > station specialized in and imported much plant material from SE Asia back in > > the 1920's and 30's. It closed in the 1950's and laid dormant for years and > > used to be full of many trees and plants of Asian linage. The Cooperative > > Extension service took over it after its closure and used it for research > > and about 25 years ago they unfortunately cleared many of the old trees to > > make way for field crops under research. There is still a fair collection of > > trees and plant material there, although many of the old oak > > species (Quercus, Lithocarpus, Castenopsis, Castenea) fell to the bulldozer. > > Many folks including myself collected seed and seedlings from those > > trees and planted them around SE GA. > > > The leaves of the oak are strongly veined both on top and bottom, very > > similar in texture to a loquat, but not as hairy. I didn't take a hand lens, > > but I would say for a cursory description they were glabrous. The leaves > > were 5-8 inches long and the acorns about 3/4 inches. Pictures 1-4 are of > > the oak. I also found a maple and dogwood I had never seen before, but they > > appear to be a Yunan or Leather-leaf Maple and a Himalayan Dogwood. > > > photo 1 oak leaves > > > photo 2 oak buds > > > photo 3 oak acorns > > > photo 4 oak bark > > > photo 5 Leather-leaf maple > > > photo 6 Himalayan dogwood > > > -- > > Eastern Native Tree Societyhttp://www.nativetreesociety.org > > Send email to [email protected] > > Visit this group athttp://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]
