[tiny picspam] post ALL the things

[kaberett]

(Posts you will probably be spared, at least this evening: the relationship processing one and the wow-I-really-need-a-counselling-session one.)

First, two grainy pics from Portland: one (1) mountain and one (1) HOW DO PACIFIC NORTHWEST TREES EVEN WORK SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TREE TO ME.

So this was the view from the hotel room balcony... on the one night it was clear enough to see. (Mount Hood, with the sun setting over't.)


SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS (BABY) TREE TO ME. Is it an oak relative??? How does it thing????

Aaaand third in the tiny picspam: what happens when I transcribe my earlier post onto my (A3) whiteboard:



(Click for much, much bigger.)

SO. Those are some things.

Comments

[sylvaine]

o_____O WHAT IS THAT TREE.

[kaberett]

IDEKKKKKK

[fyreharper]

Definitely looks like an oak, but I'm not placing what kind. Based on location I'd tend to assume Oregon White Oak (Quercus garryana) but the leaves are a bit off...

:hoping someone has a more definite answer, because Is Also Curious:

[kaberett]

OKAY GOOD I was probably RIGHT about the Quercus bit, that makes me feel better.

I think its leaves were actually a bit different from the Big Trees I saw that were similar; however, I'm pretty sure the Big Trees also weren't quite Q. garryana, because their leaves were still Pointier Than That.

idek. ijdek.

[birke]

My mother says: "The closest match I could find to the leaf shape was a pin oak or maybe pyrenean oak but neither quite fit the bill."

My dad says: "Looks very oaky."

[fyreharper]

Yeah, pin oak was the closest I could find on my Poke Through The Internets - the amount of space between the lobes especially. Not native to Oregon but seems to have been used in landscaping (range unknown for latter). But pin oak looks like it is very very pointy, and at least from the photo this one looks like it is a bit undecided on whether to be quite pointy or rounded.

[calissa]

I was also going to weigh in with pin oak, since the photo looks similar to the rather larger pin oak in my front yard (and the neighbour's pin oak featured in my icon).

[fyreharper]

Ahayeah, my thought process was approximately 'Oh, it's an oak. :pause: Wait. What the heck kind of oak are you?' (followed of course by inconclusive research yey!).

treeeeeeeeeeees though <3

[ghoti]

(a) I love your handwriting.
(b) I really hope that third weekend says "Paris?" ;-)
(c) tiiiiiiiiiny baby tree.

[kaberett]

(a) haaaaa at some point I will scan in some of my actually neat writing
(b) yes, yes it does ;) And if not that weekend, the weekend after!
(c) BUT WHAT IS IT THOUGH

[ghoti]

it is a tiny tree that will grow up into a less tiny tree that will make pollen and allergies.

[kaberett]

*cacklesnort*

[ghoti]

what do i look like, a botanist? ;-)

[steorra]

That was not what I was expecting for the description "Pacific Northwest tree". I expected a conifer.