Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur)

A new experience for me today!  I spent the day as Photographer's Assistant.  Clickychick was working with a client on product photography and "The Mate" was teaching cabinet making so I was busy holding reflectors, moving light stands etc.

In between things I wandered out of the studio looking for a blip.  In the sunshine the views were good so I took several shots.  Somebody is now thinking that's not a scene!  They are quite right, but the views are there any day I visit the studio the acorns not necessarily.

The Pedunculate Oak (also known as the English Oak) is easily separated from the Lake District's Oak the Sessile Oak.  As you can see in  the shot the acorn of the Pedunculate is carried on a stem technically a Peduncle hence the name.  In the Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea) the acorn if fastened directly on to the twig.  In years gone by the common tree clothing the valley sides in the Lake District would have been the Sessile Oak.

Just to make life more interesting or complicated depending on your view the next but one tree in the row was a Scarlet Oak   (Quercus coccinea) native to the USA but planted here for the autumn colour.