What tree is this?

[czechsonofagun]

I am trying to find the name of this tree. Hard wood, looks like oak, leaves - see the picture. Ideas, anybody? Thanks!

 

[skipmarcy]

Looks like cherry leaves.

 

[CTPhil]

But the bark doesn't look like cherry bark...

 

[forgeblast]

PLANTS Profile for Prunus serotina (black cherry) | USDA PLANTS
sure looks like black cherry.

 

[jonyyuma]

My vote is for Cherry...

 

[rrrkkk]

It's an Oak red or pin oak

 

[PossumHound]

Cherry leaves would have small "teeth" around the edge of the leaf. Hard to tell from the one pic, but those leaves look smooth on the edge. I agree the bark does not look like cherry as well. The closest thing I can find in my Audobon Field Guide to North American trees is the Laurel Oak. This tree grows in a fairly narrow band along the southeast and gulf coasts. Here's a link to an image for comparison:

http://www.forestryimages.org/images/768x512/1380326.jpg

PH

 

[polo1665]

Definitely not cherry.

 

[MMagis]

I think laurel oak is correct. Definitely not cherry.

 

[chipsndust]

Looks like Live Oak. Does Live Oak grow in your area?

 

[Hakim]

Looks like a tree in my back yard, and mine is a .... peach. Maybe yours is too! Leaves look the same. Does it produce any fruit? Sometimes they need fertilizer to bear. :thumbsup:

 

[plowindeeper]

looks like a pin oak to me thats what ive always called them may have a different proper name 50 or 60 on my place

 

[PossumHound]

Fruit trees, apple, pear, cherry, peach, etc, all have simple toothed leaves. That is there are small "teeth" around the edges of the leaves. They are sometimes so small as to be hard to see, but they are there on all North American fruit trees.

Live oaks do have leaves with that shape, but they are much smaller. Pin oaks, actually willow oaks, also have similar shape but much smaller. There is a pin oak, but it has the common five lobed oak leaf shape with a thin pin-like spike at the tip of each lobe with a very distinctive dark grey bark.

After some more research I'm still thinking it's a laurel oak.

PH

 

[CTPhil]

The leaves do look like peach but I've never seen one with a trunk that big.

 

[RandyT]

take it from someone with a B.S. forestry. Its Shingle Oak.

 

[keegs]

maybe willow oak

 

[PossumHound]

take it from someone with a B.S. forestry. Its Shingle Oak.

I agree, the leaves are very similar to laurel oak, but that ID makes sense. I'll definitely defer to the forestry major on this. I roomed with a forestry student once in college, and the tree ID course he went through at NCSU was tough, tough, tough.

PH

 

[czechsonofagun]

Thanks, gentlemen, it looks like a willow oak - of course I did not even know it exists.

It is a tree in our mini forest, tall tree between oaks and maples and the wood really looks like oak.

 

[RandyT]

maybe willow oak

The willow oak that I have seen had smaller narrower leaves. People have different names for the same plant in different parts of the country so the different may be just in the common name.

the guy that posted about the tree ID is right. Mine required knowing the common name, Genus, Species, and
Family of over two hundred trees and plants and had to be able to spell them all correctly. Plus had to know how to identify not only by leaves, but also bark, twig, bloom, and twig features. Plus a class in Lumber ID. color, odor, grain identification over 100 types of lumber some not even native to the US of A.

 

[CTPhil]

OK, I'm calling peach. Peach leaves are shiny, oaks semi shiny. Here's a pic of my oldest peach tree, pretty close.