A fellow I was helping with a timber thinning showed me this tall shrub-small tree. Leaves are evergreen, alternate, small, smooth and very privet-ish. The flower appeared to be brown, near bur-like, and best I could tell, there was one small seed per flower, but they appeared sterile to me...just a shell. Another person with similar trees, somewhat larger, and quite possibly the source of the seeds from which the first man's trees grew, (about two miles apart), swears that this is a live oak. I don't think so. These are in southern Chattooga county, Georgia. My first impression was yaupon or some other holly, or some type of privet or olive...but I'm no expert. Attached is a picture. Thanks for your help. YOu can email me at tim@ChesnutForestry.com Thanks! Tim
"brownish flower clusters" looks like it has finished flowering. Do you know what the flowers looked like before this stage (colour)??? we seem to refer to it as Groundsel over here. Presuming that is it. Some good pics of flowers below. Seems to be a weed here as well. Leaves don't seem quiet the same but there are many members of the family. http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/factsheets/pdf/pest/pp13.pdf Liz