The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

A: The native bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa, produces huge corns, about 2 or 2½ inches wide and long. They're held in fringed, basketlike cups — thus the common name, mossy cup oak. Deer and squirrels ...

Maybe you’ve been plonked on the head one too many times while out in the woods. Or you’ve come across a patch of forest floor that made it feel like you were walking on marbles. If either of these ...

Q: I picked up egg-sized acorns from a bur oak in DeWitt County. Can I start them in pots and transplant to my property in Matagorda County? — M.V, Houston A: The bur oak is in the white oak group.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A cornucopia of acorns has been falling from oak trees this season, a ...

Spot an oak tree this time of year and under and all around it will be hundreds of acorns. To some gardeners, acorns are a nuisance but there are positives to them. Collecting acorns gets us outdoors, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Utilization of acorns from individual red oaks Quercus rubra Fagaceae) was examined in the tree canopies during fall and from the ground ...

The Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF) is putting in a request to residents of the commonwealth: Bring them your acorns. The drive is a part of an effort to help reforest Virginia’s open land with ...

Autumn is nature’s way of getting us to shake off the glaze of summer and look at the magnificent trees all around us. And every autumn, the Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF) encourages the ...