The native bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa, produces huge corns, about 2 inches wide and long. They're held in fringed, basketlike cups — thus, their common name, mossy cup oak.

Bur oak, the type of tree in my yard, can live to be 200 to 300 years old. If these older trees even only produce 1,000 acorns a year, that’s a heck of a good reproduction strategy.

Hardy in Zones 4 through 8, the bur oak often tops out at 100 feet when fully mature and commonly lives for more than 200 years. Tolerant of pollution, drought, wind and cold, these trees are very ...

In 1919, Anna asked an aunt to send her some seeds from her former home in Charles City, Iowa. The aunt sent six bur acorns, one of which became the Hawthorne oak.

Last summer when my granddaughters were here from Minnesota, they each planted an acorn — a burr oak seed. They carefully placed the acorn into a small vessel with potting soil, applied the ...

A 300-year-old bur oak tree near the corner of Harrodsburg Road and Military Pike sat the morning of Saturday, March 4, 2023 after being blown over by a strong wind storm the night before that ...