It isn't only the woodland wildflowers that are beginning to bloom. Just as yesterday's lilacs and apple trees so are the other trees.
The white oak tree in the yard was a bare root stick when
planted eighteen years ago. In almost two decades it has grown into a handsome pre-adolescent.
I gave this tree a thorough examination and could find no flowers of the female persuasion. Not surprising inasmuch as they are not visible to the naked eye. It is from the female flower that acorns are formed. White oaks mature sufficiently at twenty or more years of age before they are capable of producing acorns. Large numbers of acorns won't materialize until the tree is fifty years of age. Which makes sense for a tree that will live many hundreds of years.
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