The Beech family ( Fagaceae ) is a large group of trees that include the beeches , chestnuts , chincapin and the oaks . The oaks ( Quercus ) admit as many as 60 mintage in North America . Within the Quercus genus are two division of oaks — the lily-white oak and the red oak . These tree have difference in their leaves , acorn and bark that the " National Audubon Society Field Guide to Trees " say you could employ to tell them apart .
Leaf Differences
The leaves of an oak tree are important indicators of the oak tree group to which a species belong . The leaves of the white oaks typically feature lobe with rounded end , like on a bur oak tree , or foliage with edges with rounded serration all along their leeway , which is the case with the various chestnut oaks . The cherry-red oak tree group admit parting with an array of appearances . Some of these trees will have leave that possess a more pointed lobe , with the lobe tip with bristles . Other crimson oaks will have spiny dentition on their margins , some will have bland bound and others may own edges that are smooth but with one bristle at the peak of the foliage .
Acorn Differences
The acorns of the white oak group maturate more quickly than the yield on the red oaks do , taking just one growing season to develop in full . The acorns of the red oaks normally need two growing time of year to mature . This mean that as the older acorns mature and new ones arise , there will be acorns of different size on the tree diagram at one prison term . The white oak acorns will have a casing that miss any hair’s-breadth on the national fate and the meat of the white oak acorn does not have a bitter taste . flushed oak tree diagram do have tiny hairs growing on the insides of their plate and the meat from these acorns has a sulphurous taste .
Bark Differences
The color and texture of the bark on oak trees can help you to discern the violent oaks from the white oak tree . You will notice that lily-white oak is usually some sort of grayish shadiness , whether lighting or dark , and that the barque will appear to have a scurfy appearance and feel to it . The red oaks have a much darker bark , with some so dark that they may even look almost black . The red oaks bark will ordinarily have deep furrows running through it , with ridge crisscross the proboscis .
Geography
The cherry and white oaks arise across the United States and Canada . In the white oak group , the white , bur , overcup , post , Chapman , chestnut tree , swampland chestnut tree , swamp livid and chincapin oaks are all in the easterly one-half of the continent . The Gambel , Oregon white and California white oak tree acquire in the Far West . The red oak tree have several eastern mintage like the Vinca minor oak , bear oak and turkey oak , but have a larger presence in the western states , with character existing there such as the blue oak tree , California black oak , canyon live oak tree , interior live oak , silverleaf oak , Engelmann oak and emory oak .
Considerations
The live oaks are part of the red oak group and get their name from the fact that while other oak trees slough their leaves , these type continue them through the wintertime . The live oaks are evergreen , with honest-to-goodness leave fall off and replacements quickly grow in . The oaks such as the willow oaks and the laurel oaks will feature elongate and narrowed leave of absence ; these specie are part of the red oak tree chemical group . The chestnut tree oaks , which all fall out in the eastern United States , have leave with fringy teeth that all look like the leave of absence of the chestnut tree , with the same oblong shape .
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