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Quercus nuttalli color
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Posted by poaky1 6 (My Page) on Fri, Nov 20, 09 at 19:14
| Hello, I was wondering about something I,d noticed about 1 of my Nuttall oaks. During the summer alot of the leaves had a reddish tinge to them, mostly the new growth but it never matured to green. It still has alot of its leaves even now Nov 20th. I,m not worried that somethings wrong with it it,s just a bit odd is all.It,s down in a low area so I wouldn,t think it,s a microclimate thing. I have a row of nuttalls not far from it and they all shed their leaves and had reg green growth and I got them all at Lowes this summer. The reddish one was reddish when I bought it last year, it,s a year ahead of the ones in a row in the front yard. I am not able to take a picture I have no dig camera.Any replies appreciated. poaky1 |
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RE: Quercus nuttalli color
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| Most oaks like this are produced from seed. There is an inherent genetic variability in seedling produced plants. There is even more in seedling oaks, that can hybridize pretty freely among species in the same general group (red/black oak group hybridize among themselves; white oak group hybridize among themselves). I'd suggest that your odd oak seedling has some hybrid parentage producing the dissimilar behavior. |
RE: Quercus nuttalli color
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| I bet it will be even more beautifull when it gets more mature.thanks for the input. poaky1 |
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