Oak Trees

If the leaves are green, it may be Quercus ilex the evergreen oak.

If the leaves are dead, that is merely a quirk of many oak tress that do not drop all their dead leaves until the new leaves start in the spring.

Yes Oak trees are deciduous and lose their leaves in the fall. Most of the time they simply turn brown and fall off but there are a couple varieties of oak that the leaves turn a deep burgundy color before they fall.

Probably, to sell them and make profit

Don't blame me if you die from eating them but I've eaten them before. I just cooked them first. I can't remember exactly what I did. It was a project for school a long time ago based on some native American dish involving acorns. I would suggest that you boil them really well and check for worms before you eat any of them but I think you're safe. Theoretically, you can eat anything if you just cook it long enough. Too many acorns will most definitely give you the scoots though so... use moderation.

Okay, first of all, the words "oak" and "omnivore" both start with vowels, so there should be "an" before them, not "a." Second, an omnivore can only be a secondary consumer, which eats primary consumers, which eats producers. Oak trees are producers, so their acorns are eaten by squirrels, which are primary consumers, which are eaten by foxes and stuff.

1 million degrees

it is perennial

An oak tree will drop a seed and if that seed falls of fertile soil and is covered and watered it will usually germinate. It will sprout roots and a plant that will eventulally grow as big as its predesesor.

usually, oak trees produce acorns but in some rare occasions, a certain species of wasp would lay an egg in the flower of an oak tree. when that happens, the flower develops into a weird-shaped "gourd" for the larva to feed on it. it drops in autumn and when spring arrives, the larva would have already developed into a wasp and would fly away. i am not lying. to prove it, go to youtube and search for the video posted by BBC.

no. Coniferous trees have needle-shaped leaves that stay on in the winter and they produce brown cones that hold its seeds. Oak leaves fall off in the fall, are not shaped like needle and the tree does not produce brown cones.

• can grow 500 to 600 years old
• can be found from seacoasts to high mountain slopes
• has taproot
• They protect theirselves by letting their leaves die so that insects wont destroy them.
• it may also be found in a deciduous forest

'Oak' represents a genus containing about 400 species of trees all classified as oak. The scientific name for the genus is Quercus, which is Latin for oak. The leaves of the trees bear the name of the tree from which they came, in case you were curious. Quercus alba is the white oak, and Quencus mongolica, is the Mongolian oak, to cite two examples. And with so many oak trees, you might wish to use the link below to learn more.
Quercus

Even though it a tree it still uses photosynthesis

to be fully grown it takes about 5 years. For one foot, well, you do the math

Who ever wrote the above knows nothing of oaks. They very wildly and much depends on the acorn's ability to set down a deep tap root. There are NO oaks that grow to fully grown (60-100 feet) in five years. An average moderate rate of growth is just over two feet a year, and that would take 10-15 years to get a nice sized tree.

I have BS in Ornamental Horticulture. The answer above is plain wrong.

Hardy in the British Iles there are about 150 species and varieties.

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There are between 500-600 species on the planet. Approx. 300 species are in North America with only about 60-80 of those being north of Mexicxo

Because it makes food by photosynthesis

A commonly accepted definition of invasive species is "a plant growing in an area where it is unwanted or causes damage to the ecosystem". Under this definition it depends what tree it is (Oak) and where it is planted or growing? For example in the UK the English Oak is not invasive, but in other areas or country's it may well be

We have an older than 35 yr old Live Oak and we have removed some of the large roots (above grownd and below) BUT I'm not sure about a tree that is only 35 yrs old. When we did remove roots, we only remove a couple small ones or 1 large one during one season.

From the info our tree man has told me (pertaining to our live oak tree) Our whole neighborhood would have to be blown flat before we would see the tree down and removing roots (not alot at a time won't hurt). We made a flower bed using 4" high brick like around our tree then adding no more than 2-3 inches of dirt each yr (more will hurt the tree) then we planted ferns in the bed around the tree. Now those ugly surface roots don't show and the tree seems to like it and it has been like that for 4 yrs now. "Damage" is a complex subject when it comes to trees. The tree needs all the water and nutrients it can get to be healthy. When you cut any roots, you risk damaging the tree, either visibly or invisibly, either immediately or in the long term. Do not cover the visible roots with soil or planting as that will eventually suffocate the tree. Cover with pine straw or leave exposed. Never cover top roots of live oak.

because of sun light and enrdye

the balls on the tree is the nut [ seed] that i one day going to tern into a oak tree but it will take it a long time for it to be like the tree it came from

ps.. never it the balls you see on a oak tree

I think that its either pinecones or acorns. :)

A white oak tree is indeed a hardwood it is the hardest wood on of hardwoods if you try and bang you head on it it might hurt just a little bit

Black Oak is great firewood. It's nearly as good as White Oak, which (along with hickory) tops the list for firewood BTU output here in the Northeast.