The difference is that red oak trees have more severely lobed leaves and larger acorns. Plus, the inner bark is reddish rather than black oak's yellowish color. Black oak trees can be found as ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Opposite leaves are just what they sound like: the leaves, whether ...

The oak bonsai tree is a small version of the oak tree, typically growing up to 50cm in height. The tree produces small, lobed leaves that are shiny and green in color.

The acorns of the cork oak have a distinctive fringed cap, smooth chestnut skin and characteristic green mark at the bottom, and the tree’s shiny, deep green, loosely-lobed leaves are attractive.

For those of you who aren’t aware that live oak trees drop their leaves every year despite the fact that we describe them as evergreen, look at the ground now. If you have live oak trees ...

In my front yard, the brown leaves of witch hazel hang on even as the buds are preparing to open into blooms. At Lakewood Forest Preserve near Wauconda, a shingle oak tree stands in the parkway ...

Among the most alarming are Bacterial Leaf Scorch (BLS) and Oak Wilt, both of which can kill oak trees. “Most of the time, oak wilt is vectored or carried from tree to tree by insects.