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By eating only a small portion of the acorn (and sometimes none at all), these beetles help the seed germinate and become a seedling, which confers ecophysiological and reproductive advantages for the oak tree. [1] [7] Burying the acorns protects them from more efficient seed predators, leads to the developed seedlings having deeper roots, and ...
The tree crown is very dense, making it valuable for shade, and the species provides nest sites for many mammal species. Native Americans extracted a cooking oil from the acorns, used all parts of live oak for medicinal purposes, leaves for making rugs, and bark for dyes. [21] The roots of seedlings sometimes form starchy, edible tubers.
Many animals eat unripe acorns on the tree or ripe acorns from the ground, with no reproductive benefit to the oak, but some animals, such as squirrels and jays serve as seed dispersal agents. Jays and squirrels that scatter-hoard acorns in caches for future use effectively plant acorns in a variety of locations in which it is possible for them ...
At the end of the growing season, a one-year sapling may have a taproot 1.37 m (4 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) deep and a lateral root spread of 76 cm (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft). [10] The West Virginia state champion bur oak has a trunk diameter of almost 3 m (10 ft). Large bur oaks, older than 12 years, [11] are fire-tolerant because of their thick bark. [10]
Quercus dumosa is an evergreen shrub growing 1 to 3 metres (40–120 inches or 3–10 feet) tall from a large, deep root network. The leaves have spiny or toothed edges. The fruit is an acorn up to 1.5 centimetres (5 ⁄ 8 in) wide. Some individuals produce large crops of acorns, and some produce very few fruits.
These pale-colored nuts are small, round and covered with a dark brown, flaky skin that falls away upon cooking. ... 15. Acorns. Oak trees produce acorns, and everyone knows that squirrels love ...
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.
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