This oak tree is pretty young, it was just a sapling 7 years ago... it's maybe 25 to 30 feet tall now. This one I'm pretty sure is a Red Oak but which one?





Here's what it looked like in Dec. 2011



New leaves in spring - edit for correct pictures

Another piece of information that might help the oak wizards is whether or not the dead leaves fall in autumn or stay on the tree until pushed off in spring.

Interesting, porkpal! I'll be sure to make a better note of that as I've seen trees do both around here.

This might be a good match http://www.wildflower.org/gall...

Quercus buckleyi is what I have come up with too ..

http://www.bio.utexas.edu/cour...

Very good! I'll mark this one solved.

Thank you, Janet!