This is a burr oak. We do have plenty of post oak in Texas but no one is planting it as a landscaping tree. Burr oaks are very common in landscaping. These have the largest acorn of all US oak species. Do you see any acorns? Post oak acorns are very small
That's what I thought, but I also see a lot of classic post oak leaves in the picture of the full tree. I know nothing about the viability of post oak on Texas lawns, though. They wouldn't do well in a normal Tennessee lawn.
there’s not a single nursery who sells post oak trees. It’s just not a thing, probably because they are extremely slow growers. They are very prolific throughout north and central Texas in natural areas though
Hi /u/hairyb0mb, AutoModerator has been summoned to provide some information on why tree rings are so harmful.
Tree rings are bar none the most evil invention modern landscaping has brought to our age, and there's seemingly endless poor outcomes for the trees subjected to them. Here's another, and another, and another, and another. They'll all go sooner or later. This is a tree killer.
The problem is not just the weight (sometimes in the hundreds of pounds) of constructed materials compacting the soil and making it next to impossible for newly planted trees to spread a robust root system in the surrounding soil, the other main issue is that people fill them up with mulch, far past the point that the tree was meant to be buried. Sometimes people double them up, as if one wasn't bad enough. You don't need edging to have a nice mulch ring and still keep your tree's root flare exposed.
This is a burr oak. We do have plenty of post oak in Texas but no one is planting it as a landscaping tree. Burr oaks are very common in landscaping. These have the largest acorn of all US oak species. Do you see any acorns? Post oak acorns are very small
That's what I thought, but I also see a lot of classic post oak leaves in the picture of the full tree. I know nothing about the viability of post oak on Texas lawns, though. They wouldn't do well in a normal Tennessee lawn.
there’s not a single nursery who sells post oak trees. It’s just not a thing, probably because they are extremely slow growers. They are very prolific throughout north and central Texas in natural areas though
You need to expand the nurseries you go to, there are many that do just not many have a lot of slow growers because that’s not what people want.
Source is I picked one up from a nursery on Tuesday and it was planted by a crew yesterday
In Texas?
Th trees get huge, too!
Looks like a Post Oak, Quercus stellata.
Also, if you're your tree, I highly recommend removing the !treering
One hell of a post oak leaf that’s for sure
Hi /u/hairyb0mb, AutoModerator has been summoned to provide some information on why tree rings are so harmful.
Tree rings are bar none the most evil invention modern landscaping has brought to our age, and there's seemingly endless poor outcomes for the trees subjected to them. Here's another, and another, and another, and another. They'll all go sooner or later. This is a tree killer.
The problem is not just the weight (sometimes in the hundreds of pounds) of constructed materials compacting the soil and making it next to impossible for newly planted trees to spread a robust root system in the surrounding soil, the other main issue is that people fill them up with mulch, far past the point that the tree was meant to be buried. Sometimes people double them up, as if one wasn't bad enough. You don't need edging to have a nice mulch ring and still keep your tree's root flare exposed.
See also this excellent page from Dave's Garden on why tree rings are so harmful, this terrific page from the Univ. of NE, as well as the r/tree wiki 'Tree Disasters' page for more examples like yours.
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Not my tree!
very nice. what a pretty little tree
I love it