If you spend enough time looking at and working with plants, you’ll inevitably come across galls. Galls are abnormal growths ...

Our native forests are full of food. The understories are packed with blueberries and huckleberries and for thousands of ...

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Here's how to grow an oak tree from a germinated acorn with these easy-to-follow instructions on how to collect, properly prepare, and plant an acorn.

In actuality the earthquake that shook the leaves on our oak trees on Aug. 23 was a few weeks premature for choice ripe acorns, but there’s a good possibility that many acorns were already ...

Virginia Department of Forestry asking for acorn, walnut, chestnut donations Posted: Sep 9, 2024 / 04:39 PM EDT Updated: Sep 10, 2024 / 09:04 AM EDT ...

Our most common native trees include oak, ash, hazel, birch, Scots pine, rowan, and willow. Eventually, people brought other trees, such as beech, sycamore, horse chestnut, spruce, larch, and fir ...

The acorns of the cork oak have a distinctive fringed cap, smooth chestnut skin and characteristic green mark at the bottom, and the tree’s shiny, deep green, loosely-lobed leaves are attractive.

The acorn of this tree, also called the Encina, is sessile, which means it’s connected directly onto the branch, without a stalk. It’s long, conical, pointed, reddish-brown, and about 1.5 inches long.

This rich soil will help the few acorns that survive to become oak trees. In one study where 15,000 acorns were tracked, 83% were eaten by animals, 6% were attacked by insects, 10% were naturally ...

Residents can help the state’s reforestation efforts by collecting acorns and dropping them off at Virginia Department of Forestry locations. The last day to drop off acorns is Monday, Oct. 16.