Y'all are so good at botany that I thought I'd get into the action :haha: Not really a weed - but I've been making some landscaping plans lately and I saw what I think are some variety of oak trees that I really thought were pretty at a business in Dallas, but I don't know what kind they are. I picked a leaf for identification and have been scrolling through the pictures on the USDA plants database site, but I cant find any that look exactly like it. These trees were still very young, probably 30 feet high, straight trunked, and quite slender for their height. Here's a scan I made of the leaf. Please notice that the upper left piece is broken off..
O.K, that was my bad. That section of that forum is not publically viewable. I had forgotten that. I guess I need to set up a photobucket account. I'll edit it out of my earlier post until I do. Ok, I got it on photobucket now, let me know if that's working
Great! Keep it going, folks! If we get enough interest in these things, I'll give them their own "tree and plant identification" forum.
To know if it is a pin oak for sure, you'd have to look UNDER the leaf, at the little V's where the lines on the leaf come together. If there's a tiny bit of fuzz there, it's a pin oak.
It looks a pin oak to me. We are from the Great Lakes area so I don't know how they would do in Texas. Oaks sure are pretty in the fall! Ann
Rather than a pin oak I think it is a scarlet oak. A scarlet oak has more of a C between the lobes on the leaves where a pin oak has more of a U IMO
