The title of this article is a bit misleading. It is not about deer, nor about football, but rather about a native tree ...

The Ohio buckeye is a medium-sized tree with distinctive radial leaves and shiny brown seeds that most of us know quite well. Less well-known, though, is that the buckeye’s distribution on the ...

is an anthropomorphic representation of an Ohio buckeye nut, which is the state tree of Ohio. The nickname "Buckeyes" has roots in the 18th century, when Ohio settlers began using Ohio buckeye ...

Ohio was forever after associated with buckeyes. It wasn't until 1953 that Ohio adopted the buckeye tree as the state tree. Ohio State University took Buckeyes as its mascot in 1950.

Due to its prevalence in the state, the Buckeye tree was adopted as the official state tree in 1953. Ohio is known as the Buckeye State, and Ohioans are sometimes called Buckeyes. People from ...