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Joel Krampus Meador 🌰 · @joelmeador
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This is the Kile Oak. It is the largest bur oak in the county. It is 5ft DBH. My first picture shows a paper lunch bag at the bottom so you can see kinda how big it is, but like many things the picture doesn't do it justice as seeing it in person.

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It grew from an acorn that sprouted some time around 1600CE. So it's older than this fascist bs country, state, and city by a fair amount. The flavor of the unprocessed acorns is fairly palatable. If you've ever eaten an acorn that isn't palatable you know.

We can speculate a lot but don't really know much about how bur oak came to be more palatable than other oaks. This particular one could be the great granddaughter of an oak the adena or hopewell bred for flavor, planted by any number of groups like the Natchez (probably a little to NE for them but Indigenous people did travel a lot) or some other Mississipian tribe, but more likely Miami or Shawnee. Also a bird might have planted it! In context there were still millions of passenger pigeons in the sky at the time, along with lots of other things that liked to carry acorns around. The palatability is probably a conscious design executed by skilled Indigenous people going back many, many generations, and the acorn may have just landed there. :)

Read more here: irvingtonhistory.org/visit/exh

#thicktrunktuesday #oak #Quercus #macrocarpa #trees

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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#trees #oaks #Quercus #inaturalist #naturalists #ecology

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 · @xris
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Got to explore this morning before they came with an electric chain saw and started cutting off the smaller branches. Got some sample branches, some with a half-dozen - to my inexperienced lichen eyes - species.

First of many observations to come.
inaturalist.org/observations/1

#lichens #LichenSubscribe #oaks #Quercus #inaturalist #naturalists #mothernaturesson #adirondacks

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juli g pausas · @jgpausas
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What a nice creature! What a surprise!
sycophanta (I guess) in a oak tree ( suber), near Breda (Girona, NE Spain)

@nature @biodiversity @conservation

#entomology #carabidae #coleoptera #Quercus #cork #calosoma

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Andrew Hipp · @andrewlhipp
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Cool new experiment on Quercus insignis acorns: partial acorn predation may actually aid in germination and seedling emergence.

doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.

@szorrilla

#oaks #acorns #Quercus

Last updated 2 years ago
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Rojertb · @Rojertb
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RT @jdfrei
, acorns from North America, Asia, Europe.

#Quercus

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a_wandering_ecologist · @a_wandering_ecologist
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In times where my life feels like its upside down, I look to my childhood

He twiddles his thumbs,
Stares at a mountain through green,
Cupped leaves, teethed; his Prince.

#Quercus #oak #forests

Last updated 2 years ago
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grimmiges · @grimmiges
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Something too rarely posted on :
E.g. from the late to early of
Fresh paper coauthored by my former colleagues.
Malaikanok & al. doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boa

Pic1: paratropical (extinct)
Pic2: cycle-cup oak ( sect. ; today tropical-subtropical)
Pic3: holm oak (sect. Ilex, same subgenus; tropical to cold-temperate)
Pic4: white oak (sect. Quercus, other subgenus, today extratropical in Eurasia)

#fossilfriday #pollen #oligocene #miocene #thailand #openaccess #eotrigonobalanus #Quercus #cyclobalanopsis

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IMBE · @imbe
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#Quercus #pubescens #imbepapers #amplifieddrought #mediterranean #forest #metabolome #flavonoids

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grimmiges · @grimmiges
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Another (re-)revision about to be submitted and accepted.

in a northern temperate tree lineage: biogeographic legacies in cork ( sect. Cerris)
Joining evidence, data into a

Streamlined paper, (as) pretty (as large) supplement already available on @andrewlhipp's repo:
github.com/andrew-hipp/cerris-
mirrored at
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7401179

Stage 5 is completed.

#niche #Evolution #oaks #Quercus #fossil #ngs #Phylogeny #GitHub #zenodo #opendata #academicchatter

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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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iNaturalist - Larger Empty Oak Apple Wasp (Amphibolips quercusinanis)

#wasp #cynipidae #Hymenoptera #gall #insect #entomology #nature #photography #oak #Quercus #inaturalist

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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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iNaturalist - Larger Empty Oak Apple Wasp (Amphibolips quercusinanis)

Here's what larger empty oak apple galls (Amphibolips quercusinanis) look like when still attached to oak.
inaturalist.org/observations/2

#wasp #cynipidae #Hymenoptera #gall #insect #entomology #nature #photography #oak #Quercus #inaturalist

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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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iNaturalist - Larger Empty Oak Apple Wasp (Amphibolips quercusinanis)

Here's what larger empty oak apple galls (Amphibolips quercusinanis) look like when still attached to their hosts.
inaturalist.org/observations/2

#wasp #cynipidae #Hymenoptera #gall #insect #entomology #nature #photography #oak #Quercus #inaturalist

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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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Here's what larger empty oak apple galls (Amphibolips quercusinanis) look like when still attached to their hosts.
inaturalist.org/observations/2

#wasp #cynipidae #Hymenoptera #gall #insect #entomology #nature #photography #oak #Quercus

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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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Cross section of a larger empty oak apple gall (Amphibolips quercusinanis). The central mass is where the wasp larva resides, orchestrating the growth of the gall and redirecting resources to support the tissues it grazes on. Cynipidae

#wasp #gall #insect #entomology #nature #photography #oak #Quercus

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IMBE · @imbe
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#experimental #precipitation #litter #decomposition #soil #organic #carbon #nitrogen #mediterranean #southernfrance #imbepapers #climatechange #pinus #halepensis #Quercus #ilex #pubescens #forest #carbonsequestration

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Michael Meckler · @michaelmeckler
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@rspfau Might this be Quercus glaucoides? This evergreen oak is said to be native to central Mexico and not extend into Texas, but could it be that the tree was deliberately planted?

There is a very similar deciduous tree Lacey oak (Quercus laceyi) that is native to Texas. Some oak trees that are deciduous in colder climates can be semi-evergreen (leaves remaining green until new growth in spring) in warmer climates. Anyway, those are some suggestions.

#Quercus #oak #trees

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Russell S. Pfau · @rspfau
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Evergeen oak which is not a live oak. What is it?
inaturalist.org/observations/1

#Quercus

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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
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One of my favorite pics from 2022, a cluster of sugar-exuding Callirhytis quercusgemmaria galls being tended by ferruginous carpenter ants (Camponotus chromaiodes).

#oak #galls #cynipidae #ants #wasps #Quercus #entomology #insects #Hymenoptera #nature #photography #macro

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Jeannine Cavender-Bares · @CavenderG9
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Happy holidays to all of my querky friends and to all of you!

#Quercus

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