Acorns cling to the leaves of an oak tree in the uptown area of Dallas on Nov. 15. Trees in North Texas are producing a lot amount of a acorns this year due to a natural phenomenon known as ...

White oak leaves have a smoother appearance and rounded lobes. Some oak species have leaves without lobes, but you can still generally categorize them by whether or not the leaf tip has a bristle. A ...

A rare look at the earliest stage of a pin oak tree shows how an acorn develops roots and leaves. Learn how one seedling was ...

Red oak species group acorns must be planted in the second season, meaning the following spring. These acorns need about 1,000 hours of cold, or around 42 days. This is called stratification.

It’s easy to assume that all acorns from a particular oak species will taste the same. But it's not true, any more than apples from trees growing right next to each other will taste the same.

Most species in the red oak family may generate big numbers of acorns every four years or so. Varieties of white oak may do so every three years. For the black oak – a member of the red oak ...

Planting an oak tree, if you have the room, provides acorns and leaves that feed and provide cover for millions of organisms and species while also sequestering carbon. Question: Yesterday I read ...

Acorns develop in 2019 on an oak tree in Amana. Native oak trees can support hundreds of species of caterpillars, which in turn feed the birds.

Live oak acorns don’t produce many new trees in a mature landscape but they do help insure the survival of the species and provide an important supply of food for area wildlife.

Acorns are the fruit of oak trees. There are hundreds of species of oak trees around the world, with about 90 oak trees native to the US. Acorns are easy to harvest.

Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life Andrew L. Hipp, illus. by Rachel D. Davis. Univ. of Chicago, $35 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-226-82357-7 ...