Oak trees are stately trees that can live for hundreds of years. These are the most common types of native oak trees that ...

Acorns cling to the leaves of an oak tree in the uptown area of Dallas on Nov. 15. Trees in North Texas are producing a lot amount of a acorns this year due to a natural phenomenon known as "masting." ...

Different oak trees produce different looking acorns. Most tree books I have say that it can be easier to properly identify an oak by its acorns than it often is by its leaves.

While it can sound daunting to propagate a tree, I've found it's actually quite straightforward. Just like it's possible to grow a tree from a branch, you can also grow an oak tree from an acorn.

Red oak leaves have bristle-tipped leaves. While red oak acorns are fed upon by wildlife, whites — if present — are still preferred.

Somewhere, under the litter of leaves in the woods, in the angle of a fallen log, or in the tilled soil of a garden bed, an acorn is busy becoming an oak tree, according to Andrew Hipp, […] ...

An acorn woodpecker stores a prized acorn in a granary tree. The woodpeckers are dependent on oak trees providing them with plenty of food to make it through the winter and support a nest ...

Hipp discusses various oak species’ surprisingly active survival strategies, noting that, for instance, the Holm oak deals with stress by sprouting “fine roots that are better able to gather ...

As I reported in November, acorns were uncharacteristically aplenty on Long Island last fall. This could be attributed to the cyclical nature of mature oak trees, which shed an increased number of ...