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Oak tree identification

Snake said:
The oaks I was talking about had leaves similar to those in the pics . But the bark was scaly white looking bark nothing I would consider to be in red oak family family but in the white oak family . I'm definitely not a tree expert. From my hunting experience I usually hunted around white oaks early because the white oak acorns seem to rot more quickly than red oak . Hunted red oak later on the year, had an old timer that told me they white oak acorns were sweeter than red oak but hadn't tasted to see šŸ˜
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Was always told the pin oaks were the scaly bark whites also
 
Ski said:
I have. There's a very noticeable difference. The white oak tastes like a mildly bitter nut. Red oak was nearly as bad as a green persimmon. I'm an idiot. I taste everything in the woods.If the deer eat it then I want to try it too. Hardly ever swallow anything but am always tasting. Never had the balls to try nettles though, and deer love them.
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My dog eats cat shat, and I've got $20 and a video cameraā€¦
 
BSK said:
How does ragweed taste? Deer sure eat the snot out of it!
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My food plots do terrible. But one thing they do is grow tons of ragweed. Absolutely covered with it. The deer brows at more than they would any food plot I could have planted so what the heck. I am fixing to mow it and try again at planting something for fall and winter. In any event the Ragweed will come back like crazy next spring yay.
 
rifle02 said:
My food plots do terrible. But one thing they do is grow tons of ragweed. Absolutely covered with it. The deer brows at more than they would any food plot I could have planted so what the heck. I am fixing to mow it and try again at planting something for fall and winter. In any event the Ragweed will come back like crazy next spring yay.
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I've got video of my summer plots where I can zoom and to see which plants the deer are eating. Invariably, it's not what I planted. The deer are eating the ragweed.
 

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First picture is what was on our lease in Giles , other just plain white and red oaks also but there was a lot of these and they were young.
 
I'd say the first set of pictures is more than likely a Chinkapin oak. The second set is a red oak of some sort....maybe a shumard?
 
Pretty sure the first photo is a chestnut oak. The third photo is likely a scarlet oak. The two bark trees are both in the white oak category. The second photo should be the chestnut oak and the last photo looks more like a post oak, but could be a white oak on a poorer site.
 
Chinkapin and Scarlet leaves

Shumard's look similar to Scarlets but they are shorter and as wide as they are long.
 

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