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Oak, red or white???

Photo by Samuel.dB
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Field Notes

Description:

Small a baby

Habitat:

The woods. Wolfeboro nh

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)

Red oak leaves are pointy and white oak is rounded
An easy way to tell between white and red oaks is that white oaks have lobed edges rather than the edges with more clearly defined points seen here. Red oaks are more commonly confused with black oaks, which have quite similar leaf shape. This is a Northern red oak (Quercus rubra) due to the leaves' symmetricity and the shallow sinuses (inward curving areas between lobes). In black oak, the leaves are noticeably more asymmetrical and the middle sinus is consistently more than halfway the depth between the outside of the leaf and the midvein. Hope this helped!
Good question. We will figure that out later today.
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PublishedOctober 14, 2014

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