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  2. Acorn - Wikipedia

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    The acorn is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus, Notholithocarpus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains a seedling surrounded by two cotyledons (seedling leaves), enclosed in a tough shell known as the pericarp, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule.

  3. Quercus garryana - Wikipedia

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    The leaves are deciduous, 2–6 inches (5.1–15 cm) long and 1–3 inches broad, with 3–7 deep lobes on each side, darker green on top and finely haired below. [5] The flowers are catkins, the fruit a small acorn [a] 3⁄4–1 inch (rarely 1 1⁄2 inches) long and 1⁄2–3⁄4 inch broad, with shallow, scaly cups. Its fall color is ...

  4. 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 ...

  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. Quercus arizonica - Wikipedia

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    The texture of the leaves is leathery and stiff. The veins are parallel, and are sunken on the upperside and raised underneath. Leaves may begin to shed in late winter, or when new leaves emerge in spring. [7] Fruit: oblong acorn that is 1 ⁄ 2 to 1 in long. Acorns have bowl-shaped caps that cover one third of the nut. Acorns usually mature in ...

  7. Quercus agrifolia - Wikipedia

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    The fruit is a slender reddish brown acorn 2–3.5 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and 1–1.5 cm (3 ⁄ 8 – 5 ⁄ 8 in) broad, with the basal quarter enclosed in a cupule; unusually for a red oak, the acorns mature about 7–8 months after pollination (most red oak acorns take 18 months to mature). [8] Q. agrifolia acorns and leaves

  8. Quercus michauxii - Wikipedia

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    The leaves turn red in autumn. The fruit is an acorn2.5–3.5 cm (1– 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and 2–2.5 cm (3 ⁄ 4 –1 in) broad, borne on a 2–3 cm peduncle, maturing in the fall, about 6 months after pollination. [4] The tree only bears heavy acorn crops at intervals of several years. [5]

  9. Deer hunting in a bumper crop year: How to capitalize on ...

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    Strange, but, after last season’s 2023 bumper crop of acorns, from both red and white oaks, it’s happening again! In over five decades of deer hunting, I can never remember back-to-back bumper ...