So if you have an oak tree in your yard that's currently pouring down acorns, those nuts actually developed in 2023 taking until this fall to mature and then drop.

Jeremiah Sandler, an arborist in Royal Oak, Michigan, said he gets a lot of calls this time of year about the extra tree nuts. Homeowners tell him they've never seen so many acorns and are worried.

That means trees are dropping more nuts than usual. WESTWOOD: Both our white oaks and our red oaks. We have walnuts. We have hickories. Lots of different types of nut trees are all having a mast year.

In some places, it's a mast year for acorns, meaning oak trees are overproducing nuts. These mast years can be random, happening as often as once every year or two, and depends on the severity of ...

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Oak Tree and Acorn Facts. Like other nuts, an acorn is a seed, an embryonic tree-to-be wrapped in a hard shell. But only the lower end of an acorn’s innards ...

Michigan features a variety of oak trees producing acorns. White acorns are more popular among humans due to their sweet taste. The edible nut can be used for soups, flour or nut butter.

When oak trees have favorable weather at the time of oak flowering (remember all that pollen in the spring?) and good growing conditions, this can be a cue that it is a good year for a masting event.

Seems the nuts are out in droves lately. Acorns are piling up in Florida parking lots, sidewalks, lawns and streets as oak trees drop way more nuts than voracious squirrels, raccoons and wild hogs ...

Look to the acorns, wild edible nut-like fruits of the oak tree. You may be surprised to know that they were eaten by our ancestors, both here and in Europe.