Growing wild through many areas of the northern hemisphere oaks acorns have fed people down through the ages. Acorns are extremely nutricious with a good digestable starch and very high levels of healthy oil. We\'ve had traditional acorn gruel made by our Karuk neighbors that was truly delicious. Most varieties of oaks acorns contain tannins that must be leached out to be edible. This is easily achieved by sevearl methods, usually involving running water through the ground meal. Some oaks have sweet acorns that don\'t need leaching, but they are less likely to reach the ground due to their disirableness by many types of birds and animals. Durable wood has many uses in construction and wood working. Beautiful long lived trees are revered wherever they grow.
Beech Family (Fagaceae). Native trees growning to 25 m tall, with a broad, rounded crown, sometimes shrubby; branches and branchlets with corky-winged projections; bark light gray, thick, rough,...
Magnificent evergreen oak native from south-western Oregon through California into Baja California, Mexico. Though in arid conditions it may grow as a shrubby tree to only 20 feet tall, in most of...
Beautiful evergreen oak tree is native to southwestern Europe and Northwestern Africa. Cork oaks can make a majestic specimon 75+ feet tall and wide, or can grow smaller in challenging or crowded...
The famous white oak native to much of Europe was sacred to the ancient Druids and is still highly cherished amongst many. National tree of England. Very important ecologically for it's abundant...
Deciduous with dark green leaves. Drought-tolerant. Grows to 18 m (59ft) by 10 m (32ft) at a slow rate. It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in October. The flowers are monoecious (individual...
Fast growing evergreen broadleaf tree reaches 40 to 80 feet tall. Grows upright in the woods with a large straight trunk and is more rounded and broad when grown in the open. The large acorns were a...
A small, moderately fast to fast-growing tree found on dry sandy soils of ridges, pinelands, and dunes, often in pure stands. This oak is not commercially important because of its size, but the hard,...
The largest oak in North America, this California native can grow to150 feet tall, have a trunk up to 9 feet in diameter and live to 600 years old. A variety of white oak its acorns are used to make...
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