Just like it's possible to grow a tree from a branch, you can also grow an oak tree from an acorn. Through hydroponic gardening, you can easily take this fruit of the oak tree and use it grow a ...

Acorns are nutritious and surprisingly useful, but are largely overlooked because preparing them for consumption requires a ...

The live oak has nourished and protected the continent’s inhabitants for many centuries. Beginning in pre-Columbian America, Native peoples have ground the tree’s acorns into meal and knew its ...

During the spring months, the Pennsylvania Game Commission plans to spray over 38,000 acres of state game land to reduce the damage done by the spongy moth to protect wildlife habitat. Spraying will ...

In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee continues to talk about the oak groups, this time focusing on the black oak species. Deep sinuses on the leaves and shinier coat ...

“Basically, you should be on guard,‘’ she said, explaining that 2023 in New York City was a mast year, a year in which Oak trees drop huge volumes of acorns. This happens every three to five ...

Do you know what an oak tree comes from? An acorn like this one. But not all of the acorns grow into oak trees. They get eaten instead. Squirrels like to eat the acorns. Sometimes they bury their ...

The oak is the king of trees, as naturalist Donald Peattie noted 75 years ago in his magisterial guide to North American trees. Its timber framed our homes. Its leaves, acorns and shade still ...

This conspicuous clown-faced woodpecker of western oak woodlands is remarkable ... granaries in which thousands of acorns are stored in holes drilled in tree trunks or utility poles for future ...