Type of Oak trees in Grovesnor park Chester

[neiln]

Walking through Grovesnor park in Chester at the weekend i saw a couple of leaves on the ground that looked like a non-native oak. Very deep lobes. I'd still describe the lobes as rounded but half pointy..a rounded point. Don't think it was just a random odd leaf as I think I found a tree of them, but it was dusk and partner and I were in a rush to get our little girl home so I may have been mistaken. Just wondering how the park came to have some non-native oaks planted and what they are....I suspect a white oak. Does anybody know?

[Peasgood]

Just wondering how the park came to have some non-native oaks planted

 

I can answer this bit.....it is an ornamental park and has many non native plants in it. Can't id the oak for you though sorry.

[Anno]

post up some pickies...

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Q. frainetto maybe?

[peatff]

Quercus Petraea, Sessile Oak has rounded leaf.

[neiln]

Thanks Peasgood and EdC, yes of course that makes complete sense, its a Victorian ornamental park and the Victorians were great explorers and seedhunters weren't they. The tree I thought the leaf was from was certainly a massive Oak, and dating from victorian times would fit I guess. I'm not in Chester at the moment but will be back in a couple of weekends...and I'm sure I'll be in the park to feed the ducks and play on the swings with my 1yo daughter so I'll try and get a photo of another leaf or 2 and the tree.

 

I'd googled and would say the leaf labelled white oak in this diagram is very much what i saw

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/384917099373134103/

[neiln]

Back last weekend and snapped these pics of the leaves and the tree. Tree is pretty sizeable, trunk about 2'6" DBH I'd estimate. leaves are not only deeply lobed but also very large, biggest maybe 6 or more inches long

 

 

that tree is at the bottom of the park, you can see the River Dee behind, but there are other similar trees in the park

[Adam M]

Turkey oak

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Turkey oak

 

Yup, I reckon too..."wispy" buds are a n identifying feature of Q, cerris.

 

As a matter of interest, other than for firewood of course, but the timber has little value unlike native Oaks.

 

Cheers,

 

Paul

[neiln]

really? oo-er. the Turkey oak in my own garden had quite different leaves, less deeply lobed than a native English Oak so I thoght this park tree was something more unusual. Live and learn. Cheers.