Trees {oak} can include white oak or Oregon oak or Garry oak or California oak or swamp oak, English oak, chinquapin oak, swamp chestnut or basket oak, chestnut or rock oak, bur oak or mossy-cup, post oak or iron oak, live oak, blackjack, and overcup.
types
White oaks have acorns that mature every season, have many-lobed leaves with no bristles, are tall, are broad, and have catkins.
Live oaks have leaves that have no lobes and fall off in spring: emory oak, canyon live oak, coast live oak, and live oak.
Black or red oaks have acorns that mature in second year and have many-lobed leaves with bristles: black oak or yellow oak, red oak or Northern oak or swamp oak or Southern oak, pin oak, Shumerd oak, scarlet oak, cork oak, willow, laurel, shingle oak, and water oak.
Tanoaks or tanbark oaks are evergreen, grow slowly, make tannin, have both sexes on same tree, come from southeast Asia, and relate to oaks and chestnuts.
Willow oaks and shingle oaks are rare.
leaves
Oaks, elms, maples have simple leaves and not many leaflets on one stalk. Oaks and some magnolias and dogwoods have leaves at twig tips.
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