It's well documented that trees which produce seeds for propagation, like oak, pine, maple and the various nut trees among many others, have what's called "mast years" where an unusually high ...

Water oak trees mostly retain their leaves through the ... Acorn caps cover up to only a quarter of the round nut. White oaks are long-lived shade trees that grow to 60 to 150 feet tall.

All told, North America’s oak trees collectively produce more nuts than all the other nut trees on the continent. It takes about 20 to 30 years for an oak to mature to the point at which it ...

Acorns are the fruit of oak trees. There are hundreds of species of ... Acorns are lower in fat than many other nuts. For instance, raw almonds have 50 grams of fats in a 100-gram portion.

The Charter Oak. The Royal Oak ... The chestnut blight wiped out that beloved tree, whose nuts nourished us and whose bark tanned our leather. Dutch elm disease nearly eliminated America ...

A debate continues among scientists over whether tree composition in forests in eastern North America historically have been influenced more by climate or by cultural burning, which is the intentional ...

along with a portion of the nut. The Nash Square squirrel “Berkeley,” a sculpture by Corey Lancaster, was carved from part of a 90-foot, 120-year-old willow oak that was removed from Nash Square in ...