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, Ted
Shoemaker writes
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.)

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

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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Stewart Robert Hinsley