Q: I picked up egg-sized acorns from a bur oak in DeWitt County. Can I start them in pots and transplant to my property in Matagorda County? — M.V, Houston A: The bur oak is in the white oak group.

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 ...

Q. I want to collect the large acorns from a bur oak near my home. I collected them years ago, but the past few I have not seen the fruit. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong time of year? Do they bear ...

During a recent visit to Fort Worth's Trinity River Park, the ground under some of the huge trees was covered by what appeared to be brown golf balls. Those trees were bur oaks, and the "golf balls" ...

Q: A squirrel must have planted a bur oak acorn in one of our pots last year, because we were blessed with a seedling this spring. It grew well (27 inches tall), although it was attacked by a fungus ...

Maureen and Mike Breskey love the 200-year-old oak trees shading their Burr Ridge yard. It’s the acorns they hate, nuts that ding their cars, clog the lawn mower, stain the neighbor’s white driveway ...