Producing acorns takes a lot of energy from trees. Pumping out mass quantities could result from environmental cues or phenology — the timing of life events — that prompt trees to boost up ...

Acorns cling to the leaves of an oak tree in the uptown area of Dallas on Nov. 15. Trees in North Texas are producing a lot amount of a acorns this year due to a natural phenomenon known as "masting." ...

Some words may be mispronounced. Acorns develop in 2019 on an oak tree in Amana. Native oak trees can support hundreds of species of caterpillars, which in turn feed the birds. (The Gazette) ...

A 1-gallon pot works well. The white oaks will germinate by next spring, and the acorns from red oak trees will germinate in the second spring. Planting the acorns 1 inch deep works well.

Acorns are the nut/fruit of oak trees, and we certainly have a TON of oaks around San Antonio and the Hill Country -- particularly live oaks. But our trees have been through the ringer in the past ...

Some trees, for whatever reason, produce acorns that don’t taste as good or are rotten inside, and deer will turn up their noses at them, especially at the beginning of the acorn drop, when ...

That could be true, thanks to a below average production of acorns from red oaks in Ohio. In some places, it's a mast year for acorns, meaning oak trees are overproducing nuts.

Well, that’s the most common thought. But, you know, there are some people that think, okay, when oak trees get really stressed, they put on a bumper crop of acorns just kind of in case they die.

Environment Acorn Armageddon: Why are our oak trees producing so many acorns this year? Large waves of acorns have been noted across the region this fall, and the reason is somewhat of a mystery.