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[edit] Height/diameter, etc.

I would like to see some information on how high oak trees grow, the diameter of their trunks, etc.

The images on this article look messed up. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Snowmanradio (talk • contribs) .

They don't appear strange to me. How are they messed up? SCHZMO ✍ 20:28, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I only want to add a comment to the editors...not post an edit to the web page,

I am looking for two specific pieces of information regarding trees that I am having difficulty finding:

1. Information on how to germinate tree (Oak) seeds (acorns). Maybe you could include a section on the germination process.

2. The vast listing of a given type of tree (say Oak again)...would be really nice if your experts would provide a way to differentiate (say from bark or leaf type) between Red, White and Blue and Black Oaks.

An email would really be appreciated if anyone knows this type of info

Thanks -

  1. Sorry, but Wikipedia is not a "how-to" guide. See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, number 8.
  2. On List of Quercus species, there are several distinguishing features given for each section in Quercus.

--SCHZMO ✍ 20:32, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I came to this page through the "tanning" process also described on wikipedia, and wondered how tannins were historicly extracted from oak bark, and what exactly that process is called - Thanks, Florian

[edit] Oak tree

you never told me if this tree lives for thousands of years or not. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.225.236.136 (talk • contribs) .

The lifespan varies between species. Typically oaks live for 200-600 years, but the oldest Pedunculate oak, for example, is about 1500 years old. SCHZMO ✍ 11:52, 18 April 2006

This oak article doesn't tell me about how long oak wood burns and what sorts of stuff are in the sap and.....umm....stuff..I am soo dumb..

[edit] Brass Screws and Oak Shelves

Boy, be careful trying to use brass screws in oak. Make sure to drill large enough pilot holes first (almost the diameter of the screws themselves) or you'll snap the screw heads right off when you try to turn the screws, even if you screw them in by hand. Trust me!

[edit] On oak....oak..thats well a no brainer..=P

honestly I don't get why it doesn't say in this article what kind of stuff is in the sap that makes it burn for point blank amount of time...And also why you guys are chatting about oak on an online encyclopedia...thing.

[edit] Fallen oak

Do we have any use for pictures of the oak that just fell over in my front yard? Actually it was a double oak which would have made a nice picture. Unfortunately we only have a few pictures before one fell over. --Metallurgist 19:10, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Londonderry

County Londonderry has the Oak as its symbol because "Derry" comes from the Irish for Oak - "Doire" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.200.70.203 (talk) 17:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC).

I would like some idea of why nothing will grow under an oak tree. IE: grass/shrubs. Is it because of the roots, lack of sun/rain from dense over head or some organic reason. 68.85.53.4 14:45, 2 June 2007 (UTC)Laura W.

[edit] Oak Trees

The oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species. The oak is a decids and evergreen species. They can live in cold latitudes of the tropical Asia and Americas. Oaks have spirally arranged leaves.

—preceding unsigned comment added by 72.150.218.232 (talk) 18:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural Significance

The cultural significance section is a bit of a mess, being largely a laundry list of random items. A synthesis and rewrite is really in order. Larry Dunn (talk) 22:17, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oak versus Quercus?

It seems to me that there should be two separate articles...one for Quercus, dealing with the botanical and taxonomy stuff on the true oaks, and another for Oak dealing with cultural, historical, and ethnobotanical sorts of stuff; I am currently working on just such a split for Ash/Fraxinus.

Anyone have strong feelings on this, or can anyone point me to any pre-existing discussions of this sort of problem in dealing with cultural versus botanical issues? Note that this would help deal with Larry Dunn's issues above. --starfarmer*comm 03:46, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Plants that are sufficiently significant economically or culturally should be given a page describing their use, history and associations, with their common name as a page title. Example: coffee. Simultaneously, a separate page titled with the plant's scientific name should be created; this would be the place for botanical descriptions and relationships. Example: Coffea.

...so I am probably going to work on this over the next week or so.--starfarmer*comm 04:24, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

i use to love this page. but it has no new info like it use to. i have started useing other website. but i will cheak ack and look again later please have new informaton. thaku. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.182.22.132 (talk) 15:52, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

i really would like to no if the trees eat anything to live. im doing a project and need to no. my teacher told me not to come to this website because it was bad info and it sorta is. so can u tell me the habitat of oak trees. thaku

 ilcheak back later.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.182.22.132 (talk) 16:00, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cyclobalanopsis to Quercus

Somebody has written to Talk:Cyclobalanopsis:

"It is ONLY the Flora of China that treats Cyclobalanopsis as a genus. Almost all botanists incl. the ones responsible for the genus Quercus consider it a subgenus. In my opinion Wikipedia should follow the currently most common opinion and add Cyclobalanopsis as a subgenus of Quercus."

I agree on this. For example, Angiosperm Phylogeny Website (http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/APweb/welcome.html) and any of the taxonomy databases (like http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/ and http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl) do not support the genus Cyclobalanopsis. Krasanen (talk) 17:36, 7 April 2008 (UTC) And my understanding is that Cyclobalanopsis is treated as subgenus also in Japan. Krasanen (talk) 06:46, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TREES

I was wondering what kind od tree that you can sit under and watch water drip from it. It has leaves like an oak tree. Its not a weeping willow or willow of any type. this tree you can actually see the water drops, almost like rain drops. thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.51.3.235 (talk) 19:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)