Chestnut Oak Leaves

Chestnut Oak (Quercus prinus) leaves have undulating edges. Their leaves are alternate.

Leaf shape is obovate, or egg-shaped and flat with the narrow end at the base. They’re quite the common sight up here in my woods.

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Brenda Clements Jones

Brenda is a certified Virginia Master Naturalist, a Habitat Defender for Shenandoah National Park, and a devoted fan of Mother Nature. She lives in a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Shenandoah National Park, and hikes up to the higher elevations of her mountain often to see what nature is up to. Her constant hiking companion is a camera that captures nature as it unfolds through the seasons. It’s her goal to share the natural world around her through her photographs.

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  1. I always had a fondness for this tree; growing as it does in the thin soils of steep slopes. The alligator bark is a give a way identification point but location location location always rings my bell. Thank you for high lighting this noble pioneer of our thin soiled higher slopes.,

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