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An oak can produce three million acorns in its lifetime — tons of protein, fat and carbohydrates — and a mature tree can drop as many as 700,000 leaves every year. The resulting litter is ...

The cap on red oak acorns is flatter, scaly, and shaped like a bottle cap. A white oak with its characteristic oblong acorns and rounded-lobe leaves. Photo by Maryland Department of Natural Resources ...

Smith said the white oak leaves “have rounded circular leaf tips,” while the chestnut oaks have comparatively pointed tips. To make sure the acorns from different species aren’t mixed ...

New leaves grow and trees start to look green and healthy once more. Do you know what an oak tree comes from? An acorn like this one. But not all of the acorns grow into oak trees. They get eaten ...

In addition to identifying four common varieties of white oak by their leaves and acorns, he also explains how to differentiate them from their cousins, the red oaks.