Oak, the genus Quercus, is bumped into, climbed up in, sat under and fed upon by many during fall hunting, hiking, firewood cutting and photographing sessions. Two categories of oak trees provide ...

Have you ever taken a close-up look at an oak acorn? Usually we use the shape of the leaves to determine which oak we’re looking at. Sometimes it helps us to know whether the oak is evergreen or ...

While all oak trees belong to the same genus (Quercus), “oak” is a broad umbrella term that covers roughly 500 different species. Some of those species differ wildly from one another. The good news is ...

We have a lot of different oak trees in the region, but, for today, let’s focus on one that has some unique and interesting features: the interior live oak (Quercus wislizeni). These trees can grow in ...

Check out the Native Trees of the Midwest to learn more about oaks, their value for wildlife, and help you learn to identify different species. Oak trees can be split into production groups based on ...

In North America, there are about 90 different oak species, with more than 21 found in California. Acorns, the fruit of oak trees, are rich with fats, carbohydrates and proteins.

About every 2 to 5 years, it’s thought, oak trees will put out a really huge bumper crop of acorns. ... Well, we’ve got a lot of different oak species in Texas.