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There are several of these trees on a property I've hunted for about 20 years and I've never seen them produce acorns before. This year they were loaded and the deer are tearing them up. I believe it is in the white oak family but not sure. The acorn was almost black when I picked it up last Saturday. The cap is whitish grey.

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Can u get a better picture of the leaf Kevin? I'll send it to a forester friend of mine and ask him.
 
The pic of the bark says chinkapin oak. Do the leaves resemble a beech leaf? If so, it is a chinkapin. Being you are in east tn, I would bet I'm right.
 
Pursuit Hunter said:
Looks like a chinkapin oak, but hard to tell without seeing a leaf.
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Looks like a what he said. The deer are on em around here too. I have seen these fall long before the regular white oaks we all look for. I always heard them called "pin oak".
 
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Thats the exact tree i ask about in the qdma forum awhile back. Its either a chinkapin as mentioned or a southern swamp white oak
 
Another name for chinkapin oak is rock oak because they normally grow on thin rocky soils overlaying limestone. They are often found growing with cedars.
 
Pursuit Hunter said:
Another name for chinkapin oak is rock oak because they normally grow on thin rocky soils overlaying limestone. They are often found growing with cedars.
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Very true. They grow all over middle tn with cedars and blue ash. :)
 
These are growing on ridgetops and there is a cedar thicket nearby. I googled Chinkapin oak and pin oak. The description of the chinkapin bark makes me think that's what it is. I'm gonna get a better look at the leaves. Curious why these trees have never produced acorn to any degree over the last 20 years, but now a bumper crop. :confused:
 
@fulldraw said:
It's not pin oak. They have tight bark not flaky bark. Pin oak would not be growing on a ridge.
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this...have a lot of pen oaks in Alabama and they do have a very "tight bark" not flaky. Also leaves are long and narrow with no "fingers".
 
TITANSFAN2104 said:
White oak will look just like a red oak lead except with rounded lobes instead of points
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There are a world of differences in the common white oak and common red oak
 
I think they are a member of the white oak family?
Either way the whitetail call em "GOOD" no matter what kind of oak they are. I have noticed that there seem to be some tight bark as well as some with more flaky bark than others here in mid Tn. too.
Learn sumthin new all the time on here. ;)
 
not sure about what yall have in east tn but from what i can see ITs a swamp chesnut oak, not a pin or willow i have cruized timber, taken dendrology classes, and plant taxonomy classes. might be a chink but from pics should be SCO. type it in on bing and compare
 
Tried to take some better pics of the leaves but they are just too high in the tree to get good resolution. I googled chinkapin and that's what these are.

Thanks to all for your input. Like I said earlier I've hunted this property for 20+ years and have never seen acorns on these trees. Maybe they've had 'em in the past but low enough numbers that the deer scooped them up before I could discover them. At any rate, I looked in this area more carefully Saturday and there are at least a dozen chinkapins on this ridge. Gonna hafta pay closer attention to them in future years. Looks like the deer have stopped using them for now. No new sign under the trees. Guess that's my luck. A day late and a dollar short. ;)
 

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