On Aug 14, 11:51 am, Ted Shoemaker wrote:
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

I had a peek in my trusty old Fieldbook of Natural History and found

Live Oak, Quercus virginiana, from VA to FLA
and
Shingle Oak, Q. imbricaria. from NJ to GA

Just to give you a start.

\Emilie