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I was cutting out a blowdown thicket Fri in 100 degree heat in prep for putting some ozarkensis in. I didn't last long, about a half hour, but saw that it could work. I have a chestnut in there now for proof of principal.

Corylus cornuta, the beaked hazelnut Is it a good proxy for good chestnut conditions?

carya pallida I am surprised l never hear much about pallida. It has a thin shell and is edible. Do deer eat them? Prefer them? I have never heard. http://ents-bbs.org/viewtopic.php?f=376&t=8851&hilit=Pallida I have mostly seen it referenced as little more than a small tree and yet it makes...

One from Ontario about 4th year. Frost hit it again this year and it is struggling to release. There are several more like it but they keep trying.

A dwarf chinquapin oak, Q prinoides, trying to do something. About 3 or 4 years old. It should be higher. The few others I have are smaller. I have trouble getting DCO to grow.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11258-021-01115-7 Both weather and resources influence masting in chestnut oak (Quercus montana Willd.) and black oak (Q. velutina Lam.) S. J. Smith, B. C. McCarthy, T. F. Hutchinson & R. S. Snell Plant Ecology volume 222, pages409–420 (2021)Cite...

That doesn't look like rubra bark here. It is smooth like beech when young and ridgy when older.

Seen on Facebook and not created by me.

This guy on Facebook has interesting things to say about black oaks and other oaks. He says black oak tend to be leaners in his woods because of competition he thinks. They shade out over time.

FYI Some Facebook comments that may be of interest. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=574884717231553&id=112192323500797 We post photos of young trees grown directly in place from seed that have grown so fast and are so healthy, that readers question whether they are real. This is...

I checked KS and OK. l was surprised the soil was under pH 6 in places. It matches with the DCO range maps so that makes sense. There is something new with oaks everyday.

Yes, Haig Brown was and is considered a great nature author. He is most famous for his fishing books.

What is your soil ph there? You likely said before but I forget. Is the soil for it in KS and MO acid where it grows? I don't think of those states as being acidic.

DCO is an acid species. An extremeophile, really. It is unlikely to be mixed with muehlenbergii but not impossible.

ID help. This guy knows oaks.

Hybrid id is a black art from what I see. The oak guys are always talking about it on the oak sites. They use intermediate morphology, etc. There are no books I have seen and I am not sure how these guys get their chops. One guy was using a target .22 to shoot limbs down looking for hybrids. LOL...

https://www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2021/4/4/ep-311-how-oaks-get-around FYI A neat hour long podcast on oak seed dispersal by mammals. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/oak-seed-dispersal/table-of-contents with the author of this 500 pg book.

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-states-trees-forest-owners-problem.html FYI A really good overview of state tree nursey issues

" This tree has the largest acorns of any oaks." In the states but the largest is Mexican. Bur acorns grade from large to small south to north. They are real small in Canada. The palm-sized acorn of Quercus insignis. Credit: Guy Sternberg.

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