Native Oak Trees Lab Report

Lab Report: Owl Pellet Kirsten de Jong September 19, 2015 1. An owl pellet is made up of portions of things which an owl can’t digest. The pellet can contain things like feathers, bones, fur, and teeth, these things have very little nutritional value to the owl. These things are tightly formed together in the owl’s stomach, which is then spit out by the owl every 12 hours producing two every day.

I was having such a wonderful day, it was just starting to chill. Winter would come soon, so I was looking for acorns under my favorite oak tree, it was over by where my life long friends live and it has the best acorns. Most squirrels think they taste the same, but in reality, these brown treats taste best when they are from old trees. New trees have hard acorns and it is difficult to taste anything but wood. And believe me, I know what that tastes like, it 's disgusting. My favorite oak tree is at least 900 years old, the acorns that fall from it are soft and creamy, it has a beautiful smoky brown color to it. It tastes like nothing else I’ve ever had before, and I love it.

The sawtooth oak (Quercus acutissima) is in the red oak family. Native to Asia, it is noted for its fast growth (two feet per year) and early acorn production. The first acorns are routinely produced in five to 10 years versus the 25 or 30 years it usually takes native oaks to start producing acorns. The acorns are large and dropped in September or early October. The sawtooth is also noted for its consistent annual production and not being as subject to frosts or poor crops which often limit white oak production. Although the red oak group has a reputation for being less palatable (containing more tannic acid) than the white oak group, the sawtooth does not. Years ago, I conducted controlled research at a local zoo which showed sawtooth acorns equal to white oak acorns in

The plants have to be water, have sunlight and good soil. So what if we change it. Not the soil. Neither the amount of sunlight, but the water. We all know plants need water to survive. So if we change it what will happen? My experiment will show those result. I will use multiple things. Water, milk, soda (Pepsi) same soil from the same bag, same plant. I will get six plants in total. Two plants for each liquid. Every week for 5 weeks I will take a picture to record the result

Silviculturists use control to manipulate the growth of forests for certain benefits. Controlling a forest can be done by altering a tree’s genes, adjusting its sunlight and choosing its surroundings. Some desired outcomes would be a more diverse forest, trees with certain traits who are better adapted, or to attain a certain age of trees. The chestnut trees at Lafayette field station were hybridized with the Chinese

Black oak is a kind of North American timber tree belonging to the red oak group of the genus Quercus. Black oaks are distributed in eastern and central North America. They can be found in all costal states from Maine to Taxes. They can usually grow up to about 80 feet tall. The leaves are usually seven-lobed and glossy dark green. The fruits of black oaks are acorns. They are medium-sized and broadly rounded. The cap of acorns is large and covers almost half of the nut. Acorns can provide foods to small animals. Some other oak lumber can be used in constructions.

Figure 2 shows that among tree species with dbh ≥ 2cm, sugar maple, iron wood, red pine are the most abundant tree species at both sites 1 (transect 2), and site 1 (transect 2).

Oak trees have long been an American favorite. Drive down nearly any street, and you’ll see at least one big, burly oak.

The prevailing theory at the time was that plants grew by eating soil, and van Helmont devised a clever investigation to test this idea. He weighed a willow tree and weighed dry soil. He planted the tree, watered it and then left it for 5 years. He then re-weighed the tree, which had increased in mass by over 12 stone. He dried the soil and weighed it, showing that the soil was almost the same mass. He concluded that the tree grew by drinking

According to the University of Georgia’s School of Forestry, over 20 of the 400 species of oak trees (Quercus spp.) are native to Georgia. With the genus further subdivided into red and white oak categories, white oaks generally produce leaves with rounded lobes and include species such as live (Quercus virginiana), post (Quercus stellata), and overcup (Quercus lyrataI). Red oaks, which include water, (Quercus nigra), black (Quercus velutina), and turkey oaks (Quercus laevis), generally have leaves with pointed lobes. Besides the shapes of their

Distinctive patterns of plant distribution are evident at the SCICON facility. Riparian habitats associated with Bear Creek show high diversity and are well represented by plants requiring high moisture soils such as alders, sycamores, and willows. South and west facing slopes receive the greatest amount of solar exposure and thus support only plant species well adapted to drought and heat stress. Quercus douglassii (Blue Oak) appears to be the dominant species in this strongly xeric environment. North and east facing slopes have a very diverse representation of trees that include Umbellularia californica (California bay), Quercus wislizeni (live oak) and Aesculus hippocastanum (horse chestnut). Within these varied environments are found an array of vegetation types listed above that are named after their dominant species. At SCICON Quercus douglasii (Blue Oak) Woodlands are the most dominant. Several species collected over the last few months had not been previously collected by UC Jepson affiliated

They are generally broken down into two groups: the early successional species and the late successional species. The early successional trees generally grow fast and have high reproduction rates, but don’t live long and are shade intolerant. This group includes the birch family, black cherries, and white pines. As time passes, the forest closes in, and trees begin to die. As the early successional generation of trees die, the late successional group starts to grow and take over. This group has a slow growth rate and long lifespan and includes the American beech, the oaks, and the hemlock.

From our findings, we were able to determine that sample O (Aged White Oak) and sample M (Red Maple) were the densest. While sample 19

Identifying a pecan tree is not difficult when one knows what the fruit and the leaves look like. The pecans themselves grow in bundles on the tree. When they are ripe, their outer part turns brown and splits open. The leaves of the pecan tree are compound and are odd pinnate. Each leaflet appears to have a falcate shape, which is a curved or sickle shaped leaf. The tips of the leaflets are acute and the bottom portions of the leaflets are oblique, which makes them more distinguishable from other leaves. Also, the margins of the leaflets are serrated and have pinnate veins, which indicate that the tree is a dicot. This also means that the tree has a taproot system as opposed to monocots, which have a

Our study primarily focuses on the species diversity of trees at the Case Western Reserve University farm. More specifically, the area of interest is the wooded area to