Help identify this tree -- acorns but not oak leaves

 

Can someone please help me figure out what a particular tree is?

It had acorns, a bit smaller than most oak acorns I've seen.

The leaves were not multi-lobed like oak leaves; in fact they looked a
lot like bay leaves.  (They didn't smell like bay leaves, though.)

The bark was unremarkable, vaguely like a thousand varieties of
deciduous trees (elm, oak, maple, etc).

It was located in Tamarack, West Virginia.

Thank you!

Ted Shoemaker

 

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 Ted any chance you can be a bit more vague?  I'll place my hands on the
screen and see what appears. Leafs vs. Leaves  matters btw.

<http://www.arcytech.org/java/population/oak_stories.html>

Bill

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Ted Shoemaker wrote:

I'd google "oak leaves" and look in the image category.  There are
different kinds.  Maybe you'll find yours.

 

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If you were in Europe I'd suggest something like Holm Oak (Quercus
ilex). In America, perhaps one of the Live Oaks.

Stewart Robert Hinsley

 



    From the sketchy description, I'd guess a "laurel" oak (Quercus
hemisphaerica) or "swamp laurel" oak (Quercus laurifolia). The two
species are basically indistinguishable to a casual observer. The leaves
of both more closely resemble laurel leaves than do those of "live" oak
(Quercus virginiana): They are much thinner and flatter and, as a rule,
less deeply geen-colored. However, both are fairly uncommon, though not
unseen, in the US state of West Virginia.

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/DENDRO/DENDROLOGY/SYLLABUS/factsheet.cfm?ID50

http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4h/Laurel_oak/laureoak.htm

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