Scarlet Oak Leaf (Quercus coccinea)
Growing at the edge of a dense mixed forest. This oak tree has beautiful scarlet foliage in the fall and tends to drop its leaves very late. I hope to get some shots before they have fully dropped!
Note one of the identifying features here: concentric rings around the apex of the acorn!
''Quercus coccinea'', the scarlet oak, is an oak in the red oak section ''Quercus'' sect. ''Lobatae''. The scarlet oak can be mistaken for the pin oak, the black oak, or occasionally the red oak. On scarlet oak the sinuses between lobes are "C"-shaped in comparison to pin oak , which has "U"-shaped sinuses and the acorns are half covered by a deep cap.
Scarlet oak is mainly native to the central and eastern United States, from southern Maine west to Wisconsin, Michigan and Missouri, and.. more
