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Sep 25, 2024 11:43 AM CST
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Name: Alicia
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Hello all!
Who can help ID the tree this leaf belongs to? I'm thinking some sort of oak. After an internet search, my best guess for a match would be a black oak. Sorry I couldn't photograph the tree itself. Hubs and I went out for dinner and neither one of us brought our phones (we dined outside under this beautiful tree).
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Sep 25, 2024 11:03 PM CST
Name: Mone
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Sep 26, 2024 9:57 AM CST
Name: Rick R.
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Definitely an oak, but I don't see any of the characteristics of Pin oak in your pic, other than lobes have pointed ends, not rounded.

--- Pin oaks have tapered lobe widths as the lobe extends, certainly not expanding as you pic shows.
--- Pin oaks have wedge shaped leaf blade bases or maybe rarely the base margin is straight, at right angles to the leaf stem. Certainly not cordate, like an upside-down heart shape like the pic shows.
--- Pin oaks do not make the C-shape empty space between the lobes of your leaf. They make U-shapes or V-shapes.

I can't venture an ID guess for you, sorry, I don't know the oaks that might grow in Texas. I will say that oak species hybridize with each other, even in the wild, and even on the same tree, leaves can look very different. It's important to have as much info as possible for a proper ID. Location, pic of whole tree, branches, branchlets, buds, variations in leaf forms, acorns, bark, fall color, etc.
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Sep 29, 2024 8:45 AM CST
Name: John
Scott County, KY (Zone 5b)
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I'll second @Leftwood 's comments: this leaf belongs to an Oak (Quercus sp.), and it is definitely a member of the Red Oak group (bristle tips on the leaf margin at the ends of leaf lobes) versus the White Oak group (bristle-less on the margin).

AND - there are many many Oaks native across the Great State of Texas; who could imagine otherwise? 50 or more, by a simple online search for Texas Oak Species.

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Hopefully, you will have the opportunity to return to this specimen, and collect some additional information to help identify it. Additionally, if you mentioned the location you saw it, perhaps others here might be able to assist with the information collection earlier than you might.

Great trees are worth knowing, and advocating for them and planting MORE of them.

Some oak images from a recent April 2023 sojourn to the Dallas area...

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Oct 12, 2024 9:32 AM CST
Name: Sally
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