What is the name of this tree?

Pictures of the leaf, bark and acorn would be very helpful in identifying the oak species.

Acorns are the fruit/nut of oak trees.
Oak trees are not common in Jasper National park in Canada. The following trees are common there: Douglas fir and lodgepole pine are numerous, and trembling aspen, balsam poplar, black cottonwood, white birch and white spruce are also found.

@gondwanalon Sorry I do not have pictures. They might not be acorns. They are most likely the reproductive parts of the tree.

You could web search the trees @gondwanalon mentioned, and see if you recognize it as any of them.

@Zaku I did a quick search, and didn’t find it. The tree is giving everyone the bird.

The trees In Jasper are in the town site, and not necessarily outside in the park.

Update Not acorns, but pine cones. The are in bunches of 3 or 5 per group. Middle ones are aways pointed up and the side ones down. They have needles, and not leaves.

Thats why I called them F.U. trees as they always appear to be giving the bird.

I found it on Pinterest. I don’t know how to make a link, on my cellphone.

“The tree looks like its giving the middle finger”, is the caption. It doesn’t go into detail.

It is not pine cones, or acorns.

Update better link: For a picture.

This tree looks like it is giving me several middle fingers while on my quarantine walk.

Is on redit.

Perhaps you are referring to the Douglas Fir tree cones with the “tridentate chaffy bract”?

See here: https://ar.pinterest.com/pin/502995852117770433/

@gondwanalon Sorry its not in your link.

Here’s the picture:

This tree looks like it is giving me several middle fingers while on my quarantine walk.

I haven’t encountered this tree before, but I think it may be the spruce variation Picea Abies Middle Finger?

Apparently, quite a few evergreens that do this. The Bristlecone Pine could be another one to look at, as well as the Woolly Bush.

@longgone interesting observations on pine trees.

According to RedDeerGuy, “The acorns have what looks like a middle finger up with two growths down on each side.” And, “They are common in Jasper national park.”

Oak trees aren’t common in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. Only oak trees have acorns.

I would really like to see a picture of an acorn that RedDeerGuy is talking about.

@gondwanalon Update @longgone Has a picture above. It might not be acorns, or pine cones.

“The acorns have what looks like a middle finger up with two growths down on each side.”

I’m no botanist. But I really wanted to see the “acorn” with such a remarkable design on it.

My bad for thinking that everyone knows what an acorn looks like and only oak trees have them.

With all the turmoil and trouble in the world today I look to the tiny biological miracles that surround us to get a little relief.

I’m thinking it’s a pine of some sort. https://www.dreamstime.com/young-pine-trees-forest-tender-green-shoots-tree-growth-spring-landscape-vertical-photo-image221187727

Here’s another. It appears that this pine’s “fingers” are going to turn into pine cones. The first picture must have been taken earlier in the growing season. https://www.dreamstime.com/blooming-pine-tree-shrub-mountain-spring-forest-image249562983