Chances are you've noticed large brown leaves still attached to some trees on the roadsides of your travels - in the middle of winter when all other trees are bare. If so, it's probably a blackjack oak which will often hang onto those brown dead leaves until the new ones push them off in the spring. The wood from this oak isn't fit for anything but railroad ties, fence posts and charcoal for barbecues. Native to the Carolinas and Georgia - there are plenty around here. More info here - http://namethatplant.net/plantdetail.shtml?plant=1190 and here - https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/blackjack-oak
@netkonnexion Thank you very much! Nice to see you again. Been about nine years. =)
@rhoing This is the only oak I know of that does this around here, Thom. Except for the live oaks and their leaves stay green. If I see any others, I will research it.
@kvphoto Is this what you're talking about, KV? http://namethatplant.net/plantdetail.shtml?plant=2281 It's not in my neck of the woods in the midlands of SC. It's in the upstate and nearly half of Georgia, along with a strip of NC. The bark is very interesting.
@marlboromaam what you have identified is a hickory and I do have at least one hickory... mine are definitely oaks but the bark looks similar to the shagbark hickory you shared... I need to take some pictures and share them with you... it was a tree guy who came out to take some trees down for me and he called them shaggy barked oaks... obviously that name could be in error lol!
We do have some American oaks in the UK, usually in parks or arboretums, but I have never seen a Blackjack. Its leaves remind me of a duck's webbed feet! Thanks for the additional info.
i've not heard of blackjack oak. the leaves are certainly different from the oak trees we have here. thanks for the link. more to learn and more for the old brain to absorb! 😂 very nice capture.
@rhoing This is the only oak I know of that does this around here, Thom. Except for the live oaks and their leaves stay green. If I see any others, I will research it.
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@ludwigsdiana Thank you very much, Diana!
@aikiuser Thanks, Jenn!
@wakelys Thanks, Susan! I think it's native to the eastern USA.
@sangwann Thank you, Dione!
@kvphoto Hmmm? I could not find any oak with shag or shaggy in the name, but I will keep looking. =)
@craftymeg Thank you, Margaret!
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@jernst1779 Thank you, Jean!