Swamp White Oak
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letemgrow
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In my experience, swamp white and bur oaks r later to germ unlike regular white (Alba), chinkapin and dwarf chinkapin.
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Redonthehead
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SWO are my favorite oak by far. I have planted ~2000 of them as bareroot seedlings from the MDC (with a 3 pt tree planter). They are tough, resiliant trees that grow fairly fast, once the leaves are mature the deer leave them alone, and they can produce acorns relatively quickly. I have a lot of 6 year olds with acorns this year, although my primary goal is "brush" - trying to convert fescue pasture to a thicket of 12 foot oaks.
Sampson
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Does anyone have a good picture of the SWO and maybe a picture of its acorns. I have a couple of trees, I believe is it, on my central farm. My only issue is it is not very large trees and maybe a hybrid of some kind. Most are smaller trees 15-20 foot I would guess. It is covered in acorns and has already started dropping some. Which is early for my place but the deer don't seem to mind as they are all over them.
shedder
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http://www.salicicola.com/photos/gallery/view/1444/1444
Peeling bark on 1" branches is a good clue and long acorn stalks.
Sampson
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Shedder thanks for the info, after checking out the web page I think the tree maybe a chestnut oak. As the leaves and tree it self seems a bit different then the SWO. I found another five trees and they are load with acorns but I noticed two of the trees produced a large long fat acorn and the others more of a small average acorn. They are dropping now and I've never noticed them to be dropping this early in Oklahoma before. I took some photographs while I was out picking acorns and I'll try to post them. Hopefully, someone on here will be able to ID them for me.
shedder
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It is not obvious to me what tree it is.
These are wild trees? Planted trees increases the possibilities.
Where are you located?
It could be swamp chestnut or chinkapin oak.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=q.+m...ved=0ahUKEwj83Yml5JvPAhWCxYMKHXomCv4Q_AUIBigB
q. michauxii acorn cap
http://www.rnr.lsu.edu/plantid/species/swampchestoak/swampchestoak.htm
I am thinking q. michauxii based on that first leaf.
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Sampson
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These are wild trees, growing among large white oaks and a vast amount of post oaks. The farm is in Caddo county, Oklahoma. Best described as central Oklahoma . The bark has a gray tint to it and I have some growing in a small cluster. Similar to the DCO trees I have seen pictures of.
catscratch
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I'm in southern Kansas and this looks like our Chinkapins to me. Drop time is about right too. Ours will be dropping in a week or two, OK should be ahead of us a little.
Do SWO tolerate wet feet? I assume they do based on the name, but I've been known to assume wrong!
I've got a field edge that is a low spot, and rather than dig a ditch I figured maybe it would be a good spot for some SWO. It's not constantly under water by any means, but it stays wet for awhile during rainy spells.
I've got a field edge that is a low spot, and rather than dig a ditch I figured maybe it would be a good spot for some SWO. It's not constantly under water by any means, but it stays wet for awhile during rainy spells.
shedder
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Intermittently wet and they should do ok. Standing water no.
http://www.salicicola.com/photos/gallery/view/1444/1444
A young oak in an open wetland
They can take a lot as the pic shows
" Regarding the flood tolerance ratings, consider moving Q. bicolor to the most tolerant category and Q. muehlenbergii to the intermediate category. "
http://acornsandchestnuts.blogspot.ca/2014/01/starhill-forest-arboretum.html
http://www.deerhunterforum.com/inde...olerance-of-trees-and-shrubs-to-flooding.482/
https://extension.tennessee.edu/publications/Documents/SP656.pdf
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