This week, we take a look at the sixth of our oak varieties in Indiana, the Northern Red Oak or Quercus rubra. This native species is easily identified by its bark and its acorn. The bark looks like ...

ID That Tree: Northern Red Oak September 21, ... Like the rest of the red/black oak group, the Northern Red Oak has multi-lobed leaves with bristle tips. ... which looks like ski tracks or long ...

The leaves of red oak trees have pointed lobes with a bristle at the end, giving them a more jagged look. White oak leaves have a smoother appearance and rounded lobes. Some oak species have leaves ...

All oaks belong to the beech tree family but do not look like a beech tree. About 70 oak species grow to tree size in North America. ... black oak, scarlet oak, and southern/northern red oak.

Turns out that these wonderful trees are promiscuous and tend to crossbreed with their cousin trees, such as northern red oak, southern red oak and especially pin oak.

Oak wilt is particularly destructive, as it can spread to neighboring trees by root grafting or by sap feeding beetles and/or oak bark beetles. Northern red oak is frequently planted as an ornamental ...

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Q: What are the crab apple sized balls that our dropping from our northern red oak trees? They are heavy enough that we hear them bouncing off the roof and they seem to have a liquid inside. We've ...

We look at why red oaks are more prone to disease now and what to do if your tree has it. There are 600 species of oak trees in the world, ten of which are native to Michigan.

Here in northern Michigan, we are at a very high risk for oak wilt, due to the many species of oak trees that exist. "Red oak species are much more susceptible to oak wilt than the white oak species.