While looking for morels today, I ran across a white oak and a red oak, competing for space. Thought it was interesting.
What do you get when you cross a white oak with a red oak? Is there a morel to this story? Pretty cool SK. Thanks for sharing.
I'm gonna go out on a limb, and say if they're oak-u-lating amongst all the other trees, they have loose morels..
I would call those two kissing cousins Can't say I've ever seen 2 separate oak varieties grown so close together before. Kind of reminds me of a pair of trees I pass on my way home from work. Alongside a pond there's a pin oak getting a bear hug from an American elm. Right where the two trunks meet, the trunk of the elm forks with one limb going on the left side of the oak, the other limb going to the right. When the elm inevitably succumbs to Dutch elm disease, the two will still be locked in embrace. That's tree love for you
I had posted this thread a couple years back. What do you get when you cross a birch with a basswood tree?
It's always interesting when trees try to grow in the same space. The oaks in the pic above are pretty much the same age, and equally holding their own, I can't see either one overpowering the other. To me, they look like they're trying to push off of each other, I guess we can all see things a little differently. Your post from a couple years ago, reminds me of this pic I took in February. A larger red oak, slowly growing around a hickory.
Either way some good btu's from either tree or their off spring! Got another in my woods like that. Ill have to get a pic.
