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  2. Acorn - Wikipedia

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    In Korea, an edible jelly named dotorimuk is made from acorns, and dotori guksu are Korean noodles made from acorn flour or starch. In the 17th century, a juice extracted from acorns was administered to habitual drunkards to cure them of their condition or else to give them the strength to resist another bout of drinking.

  3. Quercus rotundifolia - Wikipedia

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    The acorns ripen in autumn, about six months after pollination. [9] It is a resilient tree that can survive temperatures below −20 °C (−4 °F), and that on occasion reach 47 °C (117 °F). [5] As opposed to Quercus ilex, its acorns have a very low level of bitterness tannins and so are generally sweet and a good energy source for livestock ...

  4. Quercus garryana - Wikipedia

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    The mildly sweet (but perhaps unpalatable) acorns are edible, ideally after leaching. [6] [29] The bitterness of the toxic tannic acid would likely prevent anyone from eating enough to become ill. [29] Native Americans ate the acorns raw and roasted, also using them to make a kind of flour. [5] The hardwood is hard and heavily ring-porous.

  5. “What Is A Food That Makes You Think, ‘How Did Humans ...

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    Acorns were actually farmed very early in human history, but to make them edible you have to soak them and treat them. Sure, you see animals eat them all the time, but animals also eat tree bark ...

  6. Category:Acorns - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to acorns and their culinary uses. They are the nuts of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae).They usually contain one seed (occasionally two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule.

  7. Mast seeding - Wikipedia

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    Knocking down acorn to feed pigs. 1300s England. Mast is the fruit of forest trees and shrubs, such as acorns and other nuts. [1] The term derives from the Old English mæst, meaning the nuts of forest trees that have accumulated on the ground, especially those used historically for fattening domestic pigs, and as food resources for wildlife.

  8. Quercus acutissima - Wikipedia

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    The fruit is an acorn, maturing about 18 months after pollination, 2–3 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long and 2 cm broad, bi-coloured with an orange basal half grading to a green-brown tip; the acorn cap is 1.5–2 cm (5 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 4 in) deep, densely covered in soft 4–8 millimetres (3 ⁄ 16 – 5 ⁄ 16 in) long 'mossy' bristles.

  9. Quercus bicolor - Wikipedia

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    In autumn, they turn brown, yellow-brown, or sometimes reddish, but generally, the color is not as reliable or as brilliant as the white oak can be. The fruit is a peduncled acorn, 1.5–2 cm (5 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 4 in), rarely 2.5 cm (1 in), long and 1–2 cm (3 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 4 in) broad, maturing about six months after pollination. [7]