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 ...

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 "masting." ...

As leaves change color and fall to the ground around Ohio this autumn, so do the acorns. But are there less of them this year? That could be true, thanks to a below average production of acorns from ...

Small acorns produce forest giants, and in Tennessee, the white oak is perhaps king. The white oak is a keystone tree species in Tennessee for both wildlife and wood products, but experts are ...

As I reported in November, acorns were uncharacteristically aplenty on Long Island last fall. This could be attributed to the cyclical nature of mature oak trees, which shed an increased number of ...

Besides being the National Tree of America, oaks support insects, birds and all forms of wildlife. Of all native tree species, oaks support hundreds of butterfly and moth species, 534 to be exact, as ...