Acorns are beginning to shed from oak trees with fall’s arrival in the Midwest. To some, the acorns are a welcome sign of cooler days to come and can even provide entertainment by attracting wildlife.

Fall is here, and so are acorns, falling from oak trees into yards everywhere. Viable acorns can be grown into oak trees, if properly handled. A: It’s common for the acorn crop on oak trees to vary ...

DE SOTO, Wis. – Jerry Boardman doesn't remember exactly when he started collecting acorns in the fall. But the thousands upon thousands of them he gathers to share with people working to improve ...

Determining the identity of a tree can be a bit challenging, especially during winter when leaves are not present. This is when knowing other characteristics are very helpful. Take the oak trees, as ...

Q. We planted a 10-foot-tall red oak in 1998. We love the fall color it gives us. This year it is producing a large crop of acorns. We would like to plant some acorns on our property in the Texas Hill ...

On this edition of ID That Tree, meet a species of native Indiana oak from the broad red/black oak family, which is found in bottomlands and areas with imperfectly drained soil, the Pin Oak. This ...

When pericarps were intact, water was absorbed by Nuttall, pin, cherrybark, and northern red oak acorns, mainly through the vascular openings of the cup scar. Uptake through the pericarp was greater ...

Since I first got interested in native edible plants, I had heard about the edibility of oak acorns. I read in many books and articles in mainstream publications and heard personal accounts that ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Acorns develop in 2019 on an oak tree in Amana. Native oak trees can support hundreds of species of ...

I'm just wondering why there is such an abundance of tiny, immature acorns this year. In our neighborhood they are just lying on the ground by the thousands. When we take our morning walk, they crunch ...

Acorns gathered by De Soto, Wisc. resident Jerry Boardman are planted near McGregor Lake, a river backwater near Prairie du Chien. Boardman collects tens of thousands of acorns per year to give to the ...