That's where cars have run over Black Oak acorns, which are bright orange inside, as you can see below: Where the entry lane passes beneath a large Black Oak here and there the ground is splotched orange. "starlike." You can see the "velutinous" covering of a Black Oak's stem tipped with two scaly, rusty buds from which leaves will emerge next year, and a larger terminal bud from which next year's stem will arise, below: Such hairs are said to be "stellate," which means With a magnifying glass you can see that each hair consists of several sharp points radiating from a base. "velvety" hairiness covering young stems and leaf undersurfaces. The "velutina" in Black Oak's technical name refers to the A very common oak along upland ridges in this area is the Black Oak, QUERCUS VELUTINA, one of whose bug-eaten, deeply lobed, sharp-pointed leaves and smallish, blackish acorns are shown below: The local oaks are especially heavily laden with acorns this year because of the unusually rainy late summer and fall. Light brown, oblong nut.PLANTS | ANIMALS | ECOLOGY | FUNGI | GEOLOGY | GARDENING | TOOLSįrom the OctoNewsletter, from near Natchez, Mississippi
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