Your favorite football team was named after Ohio’s state tree, known as the Ohio buckeye tree. Now that fall has arrived, the husks have started falling from trees to reveal a brown one-eyed nut ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOIO) - A Buckeye tree was planted in Columbus, celebrating Ohio State University’s Football team’s 2025 National Championship. Ohio Lt. Governor Jim Tressel and Ohio ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel joined some Ohio State football players on Thursday in planting a buckeye tree to celebrate their national championship win. Ohio State Athletics Director ...

The Ohio buckeye is a medium-sized tree with distinctive radial leaves and shiny brown seeds that most of us know quite well. Less well-known, though, is that the buckeye’s distribution on the ...

Ohio was forever after associated with buckeyes. It wasn't until 1953 that Ohio adopted the buckeye tree as the state tree. Ohio State University took Buckeyes as its mascot in 1950.

“The Oregon governor Robert Holmes bet a Douglas fir tree, and the Ohio governor William O’Niell bet a Buckeye tree,” Goss said. The two agreed that the loser would send their state tree to ...

Due to its prevalence in the state, the Buckeye tree was adopted as the official state tree in 1953. Ohio is known as the Buckeye State, and Ohioans are sometimes called Buckeyes. People from ...