Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leaves of a swamp chestnut oak - Sarah Macor/Shutterstock If there's a swampy corner in your backyard, the swamp chestnut oak ...

Swamp chestnut oak has chestnut-like foliage and is a major component of forests that used to be made up of both oaks and chestnut trees before chestnuts were almost wiped off the American landscape ...

Often when an oak tree gets planted in Northeast Florida, it is a live oak. Live oaks are native, long lived and very tolerant of urban conditions. While it is not a bad thing at all to plant a live ...

The oak tree family is made up of about 400 species of oak trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus (from Latin "oak tree”). The genus Quercus is native to the northern hemisphere, and includes deciduous ...

Hunters have long known that one of the keys to bagging a deer or a mess of squirrels is to locate their preferred food source. I discovered this phenomenon hunting squirrels in the Apalachicola river ...

This oak and Q. michauxii were previously both described as Q. prinus, and are often still confused for each other. Chestnut oaks are long-lived trees which filled the gap left in eastern American ...