A single oak tree can produce nearly 10,000 acorns in a reproductive season. Most of those acorns fall to the ground during autumn and early winter, but their crop yield varies each year.

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About every 2 to 5 years, it’s thought, oak trees will put out a really huge bumper crop of acorns. And the exact reason or trigger for it is not known.

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." ...

Whether an oak tree puts out a lot of acorns in a season depends on how many acorns it grew last year and the weather that year, and most importantly, whether we had a warm, dry April.

In a typical year, a healthy oak tree produces around 2,000 acorns. In a mast year, which is what some oak trees are experiencing now, they can produce a whopping 10,000 acorns.

Concerning the large acorn crop and a way to reduce it, I am afraid I don’t have a very sympathetic solution for that either. Live oak acorns don’t produce many new trees in a mature landscape ...

In a nutshell, oak tree acorns are a bumper crop this year, and not just here -- there are also acorns aplenty in nearby states, even into portions of the Atlantic seaboard!

Basically, good conditions like rain or bad conditions like drought can lead an oak tree to drop tons of acorns. This is a way that the oak tree can ensure that its population lives on.

The fruit of an oak tree is a nut called an acorn, borne in a cup-like structure. Production of acorns starts at the age of 20 to 50 years. Each acorn contains one seed (rarely two or three) and ...