Can anyone id this
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rockm
Spuds Moyogi
Definitely not a beech. I'd say it's a sawtooth oak--quercus acutissima
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
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drew33998
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I was thinking spruce
drew33998
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Serious note. Thinking American Beech. Possibly.
Leo in N E Illinois
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The seedling is too young to know for certain, you are in Florida, it could be some exotic. Of the possible natives I would guess oak, chestnust oak, or sawtooth oak, very likely. The leaf is not pointed enough to be a beech, and the buds for next years growth, while still too undeveloped to be certain, are not pointed enough to be beech. I could also be a chestnut or a chinkapin, both are genus Castanea. There are others too, but my $2 bet would be on oak. I won't bet more, because I am not sure enough to bet the farm.
drew33998
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For now it remains a noid. Nursery owner said its been there so long he had no clue what it was. Said yellow leaves something or the other which must have been a common name because it meant nothing to me
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
Dude, It's NOT a beech. Trunk/bark is wrong. Leaf is also wrong. I've collected beech, this ain't a beech.
Like I said, do some research on Saw tooth oak...or another oak species. Either is much more likely than a beech, which isn't native to much of florida, except the panhandle and even then it's not all that common.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
Not a birch.
Aren't that many species of birch in florida. River birch is the only one I could find
http://mobile.floridata.com/Plants/Betulaceae/Betula nigra/14
Aren't that many species of birch in florida. River birch is the only one I could find
http://mobile.floridata.com/Plants/Betulaceae/Betula nigra/14
drew33998
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Have to be honest I haven't seen many beech trees. I bought it at a nursery, not collected so I wouldn't think it would have to be native to florida. However, I will take your word on it not being a beech. Could be a saw toothed oak but the bark doesn't show characteristics of that. It should have crenelated bark. Right?
armetisius
Chumono
You are so right. The bark is the ONLY reason I
tolerate the Saw Toothed Oak in my yard. Well
that and the Fall color resembles sticks of butter
trussed to twigs.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
No. Old crinkled bark takes time to build up on trees. This is a relatively young, nursery-grown tree. Bark isn't going to be all that crenulated, furrowed, etc. Saw toothed oak is not a native to North America. It's naturalized and in some places invasive. Common landscape material. FWIW, selling a beech in Florida would lead to a lot of returns/refunds. That species isn't native, or common, in the south because it doesn't like the climate all that much. Likes colder winters.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
drew33998
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Ok. So beech is officially off the list. Guess the only other way to really figure it out is by fruit and flower, which may never happen in bonsai culture. Sawtooth oak does seem a likely candidate. I was looking at a live oak in my yard for bark reference. It is only 5 years old and already has the rough bark on it. It is actually smaller than this tree is as well and definitely younger. Which is why I doubted the tree in question was an oak. But sawtooth may not "bark up" as quickly as live oak also.
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
I love it when people want to know what it is they bought or dug up. And is it good for bonsai.
drew33998
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Anytime!
Bunjeh
Chumono
Quercus muehlenbergii : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_muehlenbergii
drew33998
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Went by the nursery for some mulch. Ran into the owner. He said he believed it to be a tabebuia. Viewed it on the web. Didn't seem right but could be I guess.
