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Strange that he knew that it’s castaneifolia (chestnut-leaved oak), as this hybrid with Quercus cerris (Turkey oak) doesn’t look much like this species.  
If it even is this hybrid and not some other Quercus species.

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Flop it to the princess
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I know right? Unless they were implying he was bad at identifying leaves as opposed to wood, heh. But yeah… so close and yet so far, even though most people aren’t gonna notice or care.
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HA. I wondered if any other tree dork would bring this up. It’s annoyed me since the episode aired lol.
 
It could be cerris, but immediately I was more drawn to alba or lobata, especially as I’d assume they would be more likely to use a North American leaf assuming they didn’t just do a web search for ‘oak leaf’ for the episode. They went as amazingly far as naming the genus, something I would never have expected them to do, but then they just threw in a totally wrong species. Unless it’s a joke that went over my head, but why would they
 
Quercus lobata (the California native valley oak) for reference, perhaps most likely
 
Quercus alba, white oak, extremely common and what I initially assumed
 
Quercus gambelli is also possible
 
Am much less familiar with European oaks, so will defer to others’ expertise on those possible options. But castaneafolia, it is absolutely not. Ten points the show staff effort though.
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