Oak ident

[Steve Bullman]

Anyone want to take a crack at this? Crap pictures sorry. Foliage has a slightly weeping form.

 

 

[Mark J]

It might be a red oak.

Edited March 3, 2020 by Mark J

[Mark J]

Weeping foliage can be a sign of dysfunction. Conversely, when the tips of a mature beech are bending upwards, there's usually something amiss there too.

 

[Beardie]

Do I see some hair-like structures lurking by the terminal buds? Then it's aTurkey Oak.

 

Reminds me of doing some volunteer work for the Avon Wildlife Trust and we were admiring this huge oak at the end of a day's work. Bit dismayed when we realised what sort of oak it was. It's very invasive of grassland and the AWT often has to arrange scrub clearance parties to deal with it.

[AJStrees]

Might be a hybrid of some sort. Though my initial thought was potentially some sort of American oak but as there are over 500 species of oak. I would say ask the International Oak Society or someone really good with oaks. 

 

I've been looking for a good ident book on oaks for ages. Alas, nothing has appeared so far. 

[JonnyRFT]

I can only see similarities of a few Oaks the closest being a Downy Oak. But the lobe seems too wide and rounded. As AJStrees says, it could be a Hybrid.

[Mark Bolam]

Could be a quercus robur with coronavirus?

 

Now wash your hands please. 

[lux]

Quercus garryana. White oak.

[AJStrees]

23 minutes ago, lux said:

Quercus garryana. White oak.

Nice. Are you certain or is this an educated guess? I'm only asking because I would like to start collecting IDs on Oaks, it will come in handy. 

[lux]

The leaf is certainly very similar. But not being common in the UK hard to tell. If you are near the tree again would be worth comparing other ident factors. Good starting point I’d say