The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

In the deepest days of winter, when all seems dark, nature is hard at work. Take the acorn. Somewhere, under the litter of leaves in the woods, in the angle of a fallen log, or in the tilled soil of a ...

Oaks are not just another tree. Entomologist, professor, and best-selling author, Doug Tallamy writes in his latest book, “The Nature of Oaks,” that “oaks support more life forms and more fascinating ...

This subject should have appeared last fall. Our giant northern red oak had a massive crop of acorns — the largest crop ever — for this giant tree planted around 1970. At that time, the young tree was ...

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — An Escondido man is trying to save a rare species of oak tree by collecting thousands of acorns. In this Zevely Zone, I found out why a retired science teacher needs your help.

Watch an oak tree growing from an acorn to a young plant over 133 days in this time-lapse. We picked white oak because it can ...

Marin natives Kirsten and Todd Brockman love their oak tree so much that they gave it a name — Mother Treesa. “She welcomes people to our house, standing so gracefully at the street’s edge,” says ...

If the squirrels seem happier than usual these days, it's because this has been a bumper year for acorns. We're not talking about just a few extra of the hard, woody capsules. The oak trees are ...

Throughout Michigan, especially metro Detroit, residents are asking why there seems to be an abundance of oaknuts this year. One posted to a Facebook group for suburban gardeners that she had lived in ...