This close-up shows the beautiful glossy leaves and "fuzzy" acorns of the bur oak. Credit: Garden Club of America The majestic bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa, has just been named Plant of the Year by the ...

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 ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Native plant landscapes are increasingly promoted to ...

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 ...

A: The native bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa, produces huge corns, about 2 or 2½ inches wide and long. They're held in fringed, basketlike cups — thus the common name, mossy cup oak. Deer and squirrels ...

Perhaps no tree better symbolizes the spirit of the Great Plains than the bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa). This incredibly tough native is able to grow in places few other trees dare go. Its thick, corky ...

The mighty live oak is a survivor, having endured Texas hurricanes, heat and drought. With crowns that often spread twice their heights, these majestic stalwarts shade streets and large lawns. We can, ...

Give the young bur oak tree ample room. It can grow to be 50 feet tall and 50 feet wide. Power lines, rooftops and even other trees can be overrun by it as the tree matures. Plan and plant accordingly ...

This big bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) grows on Mountwood Avenue, halfway up the slope of the Niagara Escarpment behind St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton’s Charlton Campus, one of the city’s hospitals.

Tree of the Week showcases some of the biggest and most beautiful trees in the GTA, as compiled by Megan Ogilvie. Here, Paul O’Hara, a well-known field botanist, tells us about a centuries-old bur oak ...