When you look up into the canopy of a shady oak tree, it can be hard to imagine how such a giant organism grew from one small ...

The acorns of the sessile oak are stalkless. Oak is a seaworthy timber and was used to build many famous ships including HMS Victory which consumed 6,000 trees, most of them oaks. As the Royal ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees ... oak, or narrower. Like other members of the white oak group, the bark of chinkapin oak is light gray and ashy, however it has a flaky appearance.