Feed Sign/Acorn ID

[BigBass123]

Can anyone help me out with what kind of acorns are shown? Still learning and trying to work on my browse id this season.

Also are the pictures indicative of feed sign. 2 bare dirt areas where the leaf liter has been pushed aside, 1 decent size deer track. Found this about 50 yards from where multiple game trails intersect at a ridge top.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Hard to say for sure from those pics, but I'd guess chestnut oak. That's what the seedlings in the first pic are, and the acorns look like it.

 

[kmckinnie]

White oak varieties
Is that from this year. I see your wearing gloves

 

[James12]

Definitely agree a chestnut oak, if a mountain chestnut it’ll be last they eat.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Definitely agree a chestnut oak, if a mountain chestnut it’ll be last they eat.

Unless there's nothing else around.

 

[BigBass123]

White oak varieties
Is that from this year. I see your wearing gloves

From this morning, gloves are thin as can be. Main benefit is they allow me to brush spiders off my hat without having to actually touch the spider.

 

[NCHillbilly]

White oak varieties
Is that from this year. I see your wearing gloves

Yeah, chestnut oak is a white oak, but the acorns are much more bitter than regular white oak.

 

[Nicodemus]

Yeah, chestnut oak is a white oak, but the acorns are much more bitter than regular white oak.

It amazes me the difference in the chestnut oak up there and the swamp chestnut oak down here. Our swamp chestnut is the preferred acorn over all the oaks we have. I`ve tried them myself and they are much less bitter than both white oaks and live oaks.

I`ll tell you though, you can toast any of those three in a cast iron frying pan over the fire and they eat pretty dadgum good as a snack.

 

[NCHillbilly]

It amazes me the difference in the chestnut oak up there and the swamp chestnut oak down here. Our swamp chestnut is the preferred acorn over all the oaks we have. I`ve tried them myself and they are much less bitter than both white oaks and live oaks.

I`ll tell you though, you can toast any of those three in a cast iron frying pan over the fire and they eat pretty dadgum good as a snack.

Yeah, I have a couple swamp chestnut oaks along the creek on my SC place. Big, sweet acorns, and the deer and hogs wear the ground out around them when they're dropping. But the mountain rock chestnut oak acorns will usually lay on the ground well into the winter until everything else is gone, kind of like the water oaks down there.

 

[kmckinnie]

It amazes me the difference in the chestnut oak up there and the swamp chestnut oak down here. Our swamp chestnut is the preferred acorn over all the oaks we have. I`ve tried them myself and they are much less bitter than both white oaks and live oaks.

I`ll tell you though, you can toast any of those three in a cast iron frying pan over the fire and they eat pretty dadgum good as a snack.

The natives ground them. Didn’t they. Made some kind of bread.

 

[kmckinnie]

Is this eatable.

 

[Nicodemus]

Yeah, I have a couple swamp chestnut oaks along the creek on my SC place. Big, sweet acorns, and the deer and hogs wear the ground out around them when they're dropping. But the mountain rock chestnut oak acorns will usually lay on the ground well into the winter until everything else is gone, kind of like the water oaks down there.

Our deer will eat water oak acorn but mostly after they`ve cleaned up the white oak varieties. Turkeys and wood ducks thrive on water oak acorns though.

 

[Nicodemus]

The natives ground them. Didn’t they. Made some kind of bread.

Yes, they`d shell and leach them in boiling water to remove the tannins, then use them.

 

[kmckinnie]

Yes, they`d shell and leach them in boiling water to remove the tannins, then use them.

So that’s a edible tree shroom also.
Just wondering

 

[Nicodemus]

So that’s a edible tree shroom also.
Just wondering

I`ve seen those but I`m not familiar with the type.

 

[NCHillbilly]

So that’s a edible tree shroom also.
Just wondering

They look like some kind of oyster mushroom, but it is simply impossible to ID most mushrooms from a pic of the top of the cap. Some of them, you need to do spore prints, chemical reaction tests, and look at the spores under a microscope to ID. There are thousands of species, and many of them look alike superficially.

 

[Full Draw McGraw]

So that’s a edible tree shroom also.
Just wondering

Hard to say from just these photos. If you can take a picture of the underside too that would help.
They could be Pleurotus dryinus, maybe

 

[flatwoods]

Just try em and let us know. What could go wrong??

 

[flatwoods]

Makes you wonder who figured all this out to start with.

Hey Grog, eat this.

 

[Mike 65]

I’d say chestnut oak. They eat them last at my place. I have a lot of them and they always stay on the ground till last. But I do have a lot of white and red oaks as well.