Andy Dingley wrote in
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BTW - What's "California black oak" like ? I'm not familiar with it.


http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/si...manual/volume_
2/quercus/kelloggii.htm

I liked the note about the acorns taken to the UK...

Available at some of the more adventurous hardwood suppliers in Norhtern
California, at least intermittently. Mt. Storm in Windsor, CA (Sonoma
County) had it the last couple of times I was there.

What I saw was not as pink as the run of the mill 'red oak' (which covers a
multitude of species and sources, of course.)

Patriarch