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Swamp Chesnut?

Likely from teh looks of teh small photo, but where's the tree growing - someone's yard or in a creek bottom?

I always heard it called a "Cow Oak"

Tree is in the woods. Not in a creek bottom but it is on the edge of a small drain that empties into a lake. Not running water but it stays fairly damp.

swamp chesnut oak

Acorns are huge. That is a quarter in the second pic.

On a mature one (cow/swamp chestnut).........seed count is gonna be around 30-45 seed/ pound.
Them some big ol nuts

I've got some cups from last year that a golf ball will fit in. The deer love them. Mine usually don't drop until late Oct. early Nov.

swamp chestnut aka cow oak... it's in the white oak family... great fruit trees

That is the "shoot him at 5 steps" tree

Quercut michauxii! Fagaceae family

I've got a spot with a few of those trees. Gonna try and collect a few acorns and sprout em. Maybe in 30 years I'll thank myself.

Hunt them!!! My honey hole is a group of 15 cow oaks about 100 yards from the big black. I have killed good bucks there every year.

Northbigmuddy wrote:I've got a spot with a few of those trees. Gonna try and collect a few acorns and sprout em. Maybe in 30 years I'll thank myself.

I've been wanting to try this too. I've got a couple on my place that are starting to drop now. What's the best way?

DoublePslayer wrote:

Northbigmuddy wrote:I've got a spot with a few of those trees. Gonna try and collect a few acorns and sprout em. Maybe in 30 years I'll thank myself.

I've been wanting to try this too. I've got a couple on my place that are starting to drop now. What's the best way?

I'll have to go back and look it up again. Others on here know more than I do about it(not a surprise there). If I recall it's mostly about recreating natural conditions. Like putting them in the refrigerator for a few months then planting them in trays. A lot of timing and waiting. I'm sure the wife will be pleased with trees in her refrigerator.