burr oaks
In one of the mailing lists I am on, someone wrote in about burr oaks in Reverchon Park with acorns the size of baseballs. Of course I had to go over and check this out.
I had never been to Reverchon Park although I had passed it many times. One of my many unfulfilled ambitions has been to hike all along Turtle Creek from Reverchon Park to Armstrong.
The park is in a kind of small valley with WPA-built stonework steps and balconies on either hillside. My first impulse on getting out of the car was to go scrambling up these. The intricate pathways are a natural trysting place however and besides I realized that the biggest trees were down in the valley. In the center there is a modern pavillion surrounded by huge pecans and oaks.
We soon found some burr oaks and collected a bag full of acorns. We did not find any quite as big as a baseball but they are rather large. The largest one came from beneath a huge tree at the far end of the valley. It was the only intact acorn we found beneath that tree. The other two trees we found had a great many acorns.
Posted by Bill Hopkins on November 1, 2004 09:00 PMI love burr oaks! Never in my life have I seen any of their acorns as big as baseballs... but hey, I live in the North ;)
Your picture is amazing.
Burr oak and shagbark hickory savannah fairly brands the prairie look, don't you think? The oaks in my area are decimated, the former farmer left only a giant felled one on my property, but about four small ones managed to sprout from former acorns.
Posted by: ilona at November 2, 2004 12:54 PMOh How neat!! We have teeny tiny acorns on our Garry Oaks. about as big as your thumbnail.
Posted by: mary lou at November 2, 2004 02:35 PM