Oak trees in Indiana fall into 1 of 2 groups, white oak (e.g., white, swamp white, and chinkapin) or red oak (e.g., northern red, black, and pin). White oaks produce acorns in 1 growing season (acorns ...

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 ...

During the past five years of drought, the acorn production on many of Gainesville's oak species - including laurels, water and live oaks - has been less than average, with many animals going ...

"Acorns provide nourishment to many wildlife species during fall and winter months," said Bryan Burhans, NWTF Director of Land Management Programs. "One tree that wildlife flocks to is the gobbler ...

Unlike other members of the white oak group, the bark of Chestnut oak bark chestnut oak is dark and deeply ridged. The fruit of the chestnut oak is a relatively-large dark brown acorn with a smooth ...

Our local forests have far fewer oak trees than were present in the 1800s and yet, of all our native trees, the oak tree is ...

Andrew L. Hipp, illus. by Rachel D. Davis. Univ. of Chicago, $35 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-226-82357-7 Hipp (Field Guide to Wisconsin Sedges), herbarium director at the Morton Arboretum in ...

The White Oak is a keystone tree species in Tennessee, but experts are concerned with the sustainability of the white oak because of regeneration difficulties and declining populations. Here is how… ...