Oaks and Pecans
Here is a video about telling apart some common oak species. There are 34 native oak tree species in Mississippi, and then some folks have brought in oaks from other places trying to boost acorn production through interbreeding. So identifying oaks can be tough.
Plus, this year, the acorns are scarce. I've been looking for weeks, and I finally found a few along the fence line. I suspect they got hit with Roundup or something and that's how they were left alone.
So I recently learned that while pecans are like dogs — they come in infinite variety but they're all the same species — oaks come in lots of different species. And it's important for me to identify which ones are on the land.
The tons of fallen leaves appear to be from water oaks. But there are a couple of places that have more complicated leaves that are plainly in the red oak family, but I don't know who they are.
Until I found the acorns this morning I've been working from one acorn I found under my bed. That one probably came from the tree that I used to be parked under. Which also dropped a lot of water oak leaves but the acorn does not match the description.
I haven't yet tried to match the acorns from this morning. It's been a really busy day.
I have pictures. There will be pictures. But I need to go take the laundry out of the dryer.
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