Bushy Oak?
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Spike
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From: North of Springfield Missouri



Can anybody tell me what type oaks these are? They grow up more like a bush. They are at a place I use to deliver to. Last year while they where unloading my trailer I would pick up acorns. Picked up over 400#s. There are a dozen of these trees. One is almost two foot in diameter at the ground. Yet you can still see the landscaping bag that wrapped roots when it was bought in. They were never cut down so this isn't just the suckers coming up. These pictures were taken last Fall. My Deer loved them. You couldn't hardly run them off. They were out there one day and I rode my ATV out there. 15 minutes later they were back eating.
Last edited by Weedy; 09-03-2016 at 03:30 AM.
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Looks like a poor splice job, spliced too high, look for a splice ring above the growth at the base. You may have two types of Oak growing on the same tree, which works great for pollination.
Oaks hybridize easily and the types are changing all the time. If it is a true hybrid and produces well, I'd plant some Acorns in some buckets with a hole in the bottom and spread this type around. Something like 500 varieties of Oak.
Could be a Pedunculate Oak or a near relative. Maybe an Irish Oak, they usually grow in the mountains or prefer higher altitudes.
I have a Bush Oak. I keep mine as a pollinator for my Walnut tree. It has pointy leaves, not round like yours, but that really doesn't mean much if it is a hybrid.
I came across a Birch like that and have propagated it many times over. It grows as a bush and grows like crazy.
Works for my Birch, may work for your Oak. Take a newer flexible branch bend it down, skin back a little of the bark on the bottom of the branch and run the branch in and out of the bucket, cover with earth and put a rock on top. Just add water and in a year you have a new start of the parent plant. Tends to work well with bushy plants. As long as it gets enough water it seldom fails. You can separate it from the parent plant in a year. Works best in the springtime.
I have a variety of Dogwood going now that grows out and not up. Almost like ground cover, the ends of the branches that touch the ground start a new plant. It spreads out , not up and grows fast.
Oaks hybridize easily and the types are changing all the time. If it is a true hybrid and produces well, I'd plant some Acorns in some buckets with a hole in the bottom and spread this type around. Something like 500 varieties of Oak.
Could be a Pedunculate Oak or a near relative. Maybe an Irish Oak, they usually grow in the mountains or prefer higher altitudes.
I have a Bush Oak. I keep mine as a pollinator for my Walnut tree. It has pointy leaves, not round like yours, but that really doesn't mean much if it is a hybrid.
I came across a Birch like that and have propagated it many times over. It grows as a bush and grows like crazy.
Works for my Birch, may work for your Oak. Take a newer flexible branch bend it down, skin back a little of the bark on the bottom of the branch and run the branch in and out of the bucket, cover with earth and put a rock on top. Just add water and in a year you have a new start of the parent plant. Tends to work well with bushy plants. As long as it gets enough water it seldom fails. You can separate it from the parent plant in a year. Works best in the springtime.
I have a variety of Dogwood going now that grows out and not up. Almost like ground cover, the ends of the branches that touch the ground start a new plant. It spreads out , not up and grows fast.
Last edited by MudderChuck; 09-03-2016 at 07:19 AM.
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Spike
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From: North of Springfield Missouri

Thanks for the info.
Here's the one with the biggest base.
By it's self. Get more sun then the others. Acorns very a little in size but some are around an inch long. Fairly good size acorns.
This is at a business out front so I can't hang a bucket from their trees.
Don't really want to wait for one grown from an acorn.
Might do some that way. But would like to find one in something like a 45 gallon pot. Something of good size but that I could deal with myself.
I can stop by different nurseries while out on the road. Just seeing if I can see what to ask for.
This are in Kansas City by the way.
#4
Planting Oaks is a long range project. The absolute earliest I've seen one mature and make flowers is around 7 years and they don't produce any/many nuts until 10 years or even double that.
One reason they graft known good producers onto known good root stock. Is so they produce well at the earliest possible opportunity.
The kind of project you do for your kids (future generations).
Gardeners think in years and multi years, Arborist think in decades.
Oaks typically produce in cycles, some good years, some not so good. The hypothesis is that the Trees produce this way to limit the number of dependent species that eat them. Some say the weather cycles are the main factor in why they have good years and not so good years. Maybe it is both.
A good producer is something to be propagated and helped along IMO, why not. A multi year project, that can be satisfying if you have the patience.
One reason they graft known good producers onto known good root stock. Is so they produce well at the earliest possible opportunity.
The kind of project you do for your kids (future generations).
Gardeners think in years and multi years, Arborist think in decades.
Oaks typically produce in cycles, some good years, some not so good. The hypothesis is that the Trees produce this way to limit the number of dependent species that eat them. Some say the weather cycles are the main factor in why they have good years and not so good years. Maybe it is both.
A good producer is something to be propagated and helped along IMO, why not. A multi year project, that can be satisfying if you have the patience.



