Some may be growing from acorns, but the ones by the mature live oak trees are almost entirely sprouts emerging from the root system. In our shallow soils the root systems are near the surface and ...

Deer prefer white acorns when they’re available ... Prevalent species of white oak are chinkapin, bur, English, swamp, and live oak. The distinctions between the two are important for ecological ...

On a warm autumn day, between 1715 and 1735, some live oak acorns thudded softly to the leaf-littered ground. This brief event likely went unnoticed by forest denizens, but set the stage for an ...

If you have oak trees in your yard you may be dealing with a bumper crop of acorns this fall (2024) with buckets of them coming down covering roads, driveways, sidewalks, and lawns in some places.