Giant Burr Acorns

[CrazyEd]

Kudos to my almost 6 year old daughter. She is learning well. She found these magnum sized acorns while we were seeing the Arch in st Louis this weekend. In the park, a stones throw from the monument there are some giant oak trees. I think I recall someone on the old QDMA forum talking about these trees, or maybe it was Brushpile because he sent me some similar acorns 5+ years ago. Either way I picked up 10 acorns. Hopefully get a tree or two grown from seed.

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[mikmaze]

that is awesome, gotta love the feeling you got from that, and the giant acorns as a bonus.

 

[sagittarius]

Is the size genetic or environmental?

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

I think the size and attraction of certain acorns (of the same species) has to do with available sunlight. I was at a park in a town that is surrounded by woods on Friday. There were several ancient Burr Oaks that were dropping acorns. The size of them wasn't anything out of ordinary but most of them had been consumed and there were deer droppings everywhere. Why would the deer single out this grove of trees when they have unlimited access to oaks without having to leave the security of the wooded areas? I'm going to hypothesize it's from the extra sun they get.

 

[buckdeer1]

Do you have to wait until they drop to pick up to plant in spring,The chinkapins I have done I could just touch and they would fall off but I checked some burs yeasterday and they are still tight on tree