A: The native bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa, produces huge corns, about 2 or 2½ inches wide and long. They're held in fringed, basketlike cups — thus the common name, mossy cup oak. Deer and squirrels ...

The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

Bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a picturesque, majestic shade tree. Its bark is dark-brown with deep, rough grooves. The dark-green leaves are smooth and span 4 to 12 inches long with rounded lobes.

Fall is here, and so are acorns, falling from oak trees into yards everywhere. Viable acorns can be grown into oak trees, if properly handled. A: It’s common for the acorn crop on oak trees to vary ...

Doug Witt, left, and his niece, Laura Greenfield, gather acorns from Babe, a giant, centuries-old bur oak on Oakland Farm, which has been in their family since 1876. They grow and sell small trees ...