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Burr oak-white oak hybrid?

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This oak was grown from seed. It is about a year old now and planted just over a month ago. When collected the acorns, they were defineitely the "mossy cup" type acorn. The leaves also point to a burr... but the color has been really nice.. and not typical of a burr which are usually a drag yellow then quickly turn brown around here. The color you see in the pic is actually muted now - it was quite bright red (for an oak) for some time up until a couple of days ago. Now it is starting to fade. Is this possibly a white/burr hybrid? By the way, i collected the acorns from a planted municipal tree.

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bengz6westmd
last year
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It does seem to look like a hybrid, but my burr oak in its first year or two did have some reddish fall color. After a couple yrs it's just colored like you say -- dull yellow-brown. More info:

https://kb.jniplants.com/hybrid-swamp-bur-oak-quercus-schuettei/
splaker
Original Author
last year
Even the lobes seem to be a bit rounded... the link you posted is of a swamp white oak and a burr. I suppose that's a possibility since the swamps do color up nicely.
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splaker
Original Author
last year
It's planted in a bit of a wet spot (late winter until mid-spring) but I am trying to ameliorate that by improving the drainage
L Clark (zone 4 WY)
last year
I have a bur and a few random leaves have good color like shown above from time to time. The rest is very blah as far as fall color. As far as I can tell your tree's leaves look like bur oak leaves, but I am far from an expert.

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