A rare look at the earliest stage of a pin oak tree shows how an acorn develops roots and leaves. Learn how one seedling was ...

One of the easiest ways to tell a red oak ... up leaves and grass left by feeding deer. Some of the best early-season buck sign I’ve found has been near mature oaks dropping acorns, very few ...

Hundreds of insects and caterpillars feed on oak leaves, and those insects in turn feed birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and even other insects. In fall and winter, acorns feed many of them ...

An oak can produce three million acorns in its lifetime — tons of protein, fat and carbohydrates — and a mature tree can drop as many as 700,000 leaves every year. The resulting litter is ...

The branches, leaves and acorns of oak trees produce a bittersweet taste, making them palatable to livestock. Acorns and oak leaves contain phenols and tannins that are toxic when ingested in ...

Determining the identity of a tree can be a bit challenging, especially during winter when leaves are not present ... to tell them apart. The acorn of the red oak is also much different than ...

The cap on red oak acorns is flatter, scaly, and shaped like a bottle cap. A white oak with its characteristic oblong acorns and rounded-lobe leaves. Photo by Maryland Department of Natural Resources ...

shingle oak leaves are typically about an inch wider than willow oak leaves. Because willow oak produces an acorn crop almost every year, this oak is important for wildlife food production.

Imagine an oak canopy covered with soft, squishy caterpillars as an all-you-can-eat buffet, especially for birds with begging nestlings to feed. Taken together, the leaves and acorns of oak trees ...

It was the root sprout of a white oak acorn. I carefully brushed back some leaves and found more acorns. Three of them were close together and gave me a descriptive photo opportunity ...

Smith said the white oak leaves “have rounded circular leaf tips,” while the chestnut oaks have comparatively pointed tips. To make sure the acorns from different species aren’t mixed ...