And bad woodsmanship can only hurt your scouting and hunting success. Not all oaks are alike. Aside from the aesthetic differences, some oaks produce mature acorns in one growing season, while others require two. These trees have a fruiting cycle analogous to that of an apple tree. Every spring, blooming female oak flowers are fertilized by the pollen from male flowers growing on the same tree and on nearby trees of the same species.
All white oaks have leaves with rounded lobes.
Among them are such species as the chestnut oak, swamp white oak and post oak and the group's namesake, the white oak. The cycle for two-season oaks is more complex. Then, in their second spring, these knobs begin growing again and drop as mature acorns during that fall. That means they also have the potential to produce a crop of acorns every year as long as the conditions for fruit-set are favorable year after year. The lobes of red oak leaves are pointed and include species such as the red oak, black oak, pin oak and scarlet oak.