chinkapin oaks

[BRONCOMJT]

Doing a walk through with my district forester yesterday we found some small chinkapin oaks. He explained that this type of oak has very low tanin and produces a sweet acorn mast. "It's like icecream for deer." he says. So needless to say I am going search high and low for the mature trees on my property and it may just pay of in aces this fall. Just another piece to the puzzle of success.

 

[Steve-O]

Dig um up, I'll purchase them off of ya!

 

[Maggs]

So how exactly do you identify them? Do they grow in the northern parts of the state? Maggs

 

[JNRBRONC]

Chinkapin Oak

 

[dbltree]

Okios Nursery carries many low tannin "sweet" acorn producing oaks in both hybrid and standard species, including regular and Dwarf Chinkapin Oaks.

I try to plant a few oaks every year...eventually I'll have some of everything.

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Note: what a deer considers "sweet" and what I do are two very different versions!