Biggest Oak leaves I've ever seen
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Werm said:
Did you put a wedding ring on your 3 year olds hand and take that shot ?
Those are some big arzed leaves
smokinjay said:
We have a bunch of oak saplings that are maybe eight inches high with full size leafs. It's strange. Kinda hard to figure the BTUs.
-Just for comparison, my hand from the base of my palm to the tip of my middle finger is 8' side to side is 4.5"
BeGreen said:Whoa. With an 8' palm, they are REALLY big leaves then!
An 8" palm can make other things appear too small. ;-P
Yeah, thats a Black Oak - they can have really really big shade leaves - I've seen them that big or bigger before.
Oaks will frequently have different sized and even shaped leaves depending on sunlight levels. Leaves on small trees or those on lower branches of big trees that aren't getting as much sunlight can be larger and less well defined - whereas leaves that grow up at the top of the tree with lots of sunlight will be much smaller and more defined.
Shade leaves from Black oaks can sometimes even look like just a big huge blob with hardly any discernible lobes. Oaks are super tricky to learn to ID at the species level because of the plasticity of their leaf shapes - and because there are so many similar species. Took me a long time to learn them all well.
Oaks will frequently have different sized and even shaped leaves depending on sunlight levels. Leaves on small trees or those on lower branches of big trees that aren't getting as much sunlight can be larger and less well defined - whereas leaves that grow up at the top of the tree with lots of sunlight will be much smaller and more defined.
Shade leaves from Black oaks can sometimes even look like just a big huge blob with hardly any discernible lobes. Oaks are super tricky to learn to ID at the species level because of the plasticity of their leaf shapes - and because there are so many similar species. Took me a long time to learn them all well.
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