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Hickories (Genus Carya)Observer
syd94Description
Hickory. Dry. Most common ticket
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Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)Observer
syd94Description
Alternate. Bi pinately compound. Smooth bark. Twigs 3 lobe star aka monkey face. Strait pods. Non native! Leaves fold up at night. Radial symmetry.
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Southern Sugar Maple (Acer floridanum)Observer
syd94Description
Southern sugar maple. Low woods. Only maples with smooth margins. No sharpness. Lobes narrower at the base. Less than or 3 inches. Green petiole. Sugar sharp buds. Seed in the fall. Hard maple. Better price. 1400 lb yanka hardness. Harder than black walnut. Holds on the dead leaves. Aka marcescent. Flakey blackish bark. Platey big chunk
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Willow Oak (Quercus phellos)Observer
syd94Description
Willow oak. Linear ancelet leaves. Smooth glaborous above and below. Pointed bud. Grey bark. Rigged and black when old. Acorns green brown with shallow cups. Can tolerate flooding. Also in old up land fields. Most widely planted trees in south. 1930s trees at end of their age now. Leaves alternate in clusters in most oaks. Difficult to replace.
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Oaks (Genus Quercus)Observer
syd94Description
Southern red oak. Dry soil. Not as high quality wood as northern. Bell shape leaf. Often 3 lines. Backside fuzzy. Leaves are thick. Oaks have diff sun and shade leaves. Red oaks have bristle tips. White oaks have large acorns and are sweet. Red oaks smaller acorns and are bitter. Bark dark no ski tracks or white marks. Can see red inner bark
