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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. List of forageable plants - Wikipedia

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    Acorns (ripening in September to October), too bitter when raw, but used chopped and roasted as a substitute for almonds, or then ground as a substitute for coffee. After leaching out the bitter tannins in water, acorn meal can be used as grain flour. [22] Golden currant: Ribes aureum: Native to northwest North America: Berries, edible raw but ...

  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. Aesculus flava - Wikipedia

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    Genus name is the latin name for a kind of oak bearing edible acorns but applied by Linnaeus to this genus. [8] Aesculus was the Latin name that is given to an oak or any tree that has seeds that are eaten by livestock, while flava (or flavum) is the Latin word for yellow, referring to the buckeye's yellow flowers. [ 9 ]

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Notholithocarpus - Wikipedia

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    The seed is an acorn2–3 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long and 2 cm in diameter, very similar to an oak acorn, but with a very hard, woody nut shell more like a hazel nut. The nut sits in a cup during its 18-month maturation; the outside surface of the cup is rough with short spines. [ 3 ]