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[MoDoug]

I think this is some kind of oak, but I haven't been able to find it among the oaks for Missouri.

 

[Diabel]

Looks red oak to me

 

[BigJ273]

That’s def an oak leaf

 

[Simonkenton]

I agree with you, that is a Missouri oak.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

Looks like oak. But not one I know.

 

[Jonathan2001]

I think this is some kind of oak, but I haven't been able to find it among the oaks for Missouri.

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Shumard Oak, I think. If so, common in Missouri.

Shumard Oak | Quercus shumardii

The Shumard Oak is botanically called Quercus shumardii. The Tree is a deciduous tree, it will be up to 25 m (82 ft) high. The leaves are sinuate and the flowers are green-yellowish. The tree likes Sun to half-shade at the location and the soil should be sandy to loamy to strong loamy .

www.tree-guide.com

 

[MoDoug]

Looks red oak to me

I thought so too, but the wood is kind of a honey color in the middle.

Shumard Oak, I think. If so, common in Missouri.

Shumard is a good guess, but the trunk is different on this tree.

I'm kind of leaning toward white oak, with some black oak cross breeding... mulatto oak? There's more variables than I realized on trying to ID a tree, especially in the winter. Most of the wood I've been cutting the past month is this type tree, it's an oak so it must be good burning. I'll take pics of the wood and bark tomorrow.

 

[Diabel]

I am a complete novice at this but the red oaks i have around my property, the leaves look identical. It is a totally different region though.

 

[Grizzerbear]

I agree with everyone else on oak leaf. What kind though....for me hard to tell. There are so many varieties and leaves are the hardest way to identify for me personally. As you said their are many cross breeds. My father always called a black jack and a red oak cross a bastard oak lol. Not sure why. Maybe it's a bastard to split or red oak wont claim it.

 

[MoDoug]

Honestly, to me the closet leaf seems to be the Cherrybark Oak, even the bark looks like it, but it's range in Missouri is the bootheel, which is the other end of the state from me.

Cherrybark Oak

Cherrybark oak is a medium to large tree with a straight, branch-free trunk and an open, rounded crown. Leaves are alternate, simple, 6–7 inches long; margin with 5–11 lobes; top of lobes at right angles to the central vein, fairly evenly spaced and uniform in size, bristle-tipped, notches...

nature.mdc.mo.gov

 

[Qvist]

My guess is that it is a shade leaf from a Black Oak.

Identifying Black Oak (Quercus velutina) in Tree, Plant and Wood I.D.

Black oak is in the red oak group. Black oak is the jester of oaks. It easily fools people with its different looks. The lower leaves can be blobly

forestryforum.com

 

[MoDoug]

My guess is that it is a shade leaf from a Black Oak.

I agree with this. After reading up on Black Oak, from the link below, "The bark is thick, nearly black in color and deeply furrowed with narrow scaly ridges; the inner bark is orange-yellow in color". From the picture I took today, the bark matches, especially the inner bark is clearly an orangish color. Black Oak is a member of the Red Oak family which also shows red in the picture. Interesting tree.

Black Oak

Black oak (Quercus velutina) is a member of the broad red oak group (red, black, blackjack, pin, northern pin, and shingle). This group is characterized by having bristles or points on the leaf lobes and acorns which mature in two growing seasons and sprout in the spring after maturity. Habitat...

naturalresources.extension.iastate.edu

 

[MoDoug]

@Diabel, I previously said the wood is kind of a honey color in the middle, either the lighting was terrible yesterday or I mixed up my wood. LOL This wood is red in the middle.