Oak? ID request

Hi All, I have a couple of these coming up behind the house and I wasn't sure what they are.

Looks like an Oak, but my knowledge of them is limited to red, white and swamp...

I took the picture with an older Iphone, and the siri identification was either Scarlet or Turkey (not likely as that grows in Europe) oak.

Any idea what it is, so I can figure out if it will make firewood before I'm dead?

I've got a lot of pecan trees in that area, so should it stay or go?

 

Looks like red oak to me, definitely not pecan. If it should stay or go isn't up to me that's your call.

 

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It's red oak, of some type.

Unless it's in the way, I'd let it grow.

 

Red oaks can be confusing. But turkey oak does grow in the Southeast.

 

App says:

 

I’d say it more closely matches Shumard than Scarlet. Either way it’s a keystone species that should be kept if it’s not going to interfere with anything in 50-100yrs.

 

Scarlet Oak

 

Looks like a Northern Red Oak to me.

 

I never knew there were so many different names or species of oak until I started burning and reading firewood forums. Up here I might call that pin oak. Which is a red oak. Up until today I never knew they were different.

 

I’m with you. I never knew there are so many different kinds of oak. I think all I ever heard of was red, white, pin, and burr oaks

 

There's supposedly several hundred identified distinct varieties
of red oak. Plus they hybridize naturally, so I wouldn't be surprised varieties come and go over time and can flex with any changing environment and diseases and such. It appears to be quite the survivor.


I planted some pin oaks from Kentucky over 20 years ago and who knows they might be a great/timely injection to the gene pool in this area. Never know. I didn't think I'd live long enough to see them crop out but I have.

 

Thanks everyone!

Sad to see that the ID says the baby looks sick, but it did come through a very dry summer down here, with almost no rain in August, and none in October until the 31st.

Of course, after reading up on Shumard oak, I have a lot more to think about....

It's about 12 feet away from a 15 ft. tall pecan so If I leave it it would probably eventually tower over it. (But I'll be taking a dirt nap by then)

On the other side are some Paw paws and more Pecans about 20-30 feet away that are in the 20-30 feet range. So I may have time to let them grow, and keep taking out the less precocious bearers to give it room to grow the massive canopy and rooting room it should have.

Oh, and by the way, I found two more on the other side of the back yard! Guess I need to forgive those stinkin' squirrels for stealing my nuts, since they planted some oaks for me.