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Bur Oak is one of the toughest and most wide-ranging oaks in North America, adapted to everything from prairie edges to rich bottomlands. Growing oaks from seed is one of the most rewarding long-term investments you can make in a piece of land. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpecies include: White Oak, Bur Oak, Red Oak, Pin Oak, Willow Oak, Chinkapin Oak, Chestnut Oak, Swamp White Oak, Live Oak, and more. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlant an oak. Build an ecosystem.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"northern-red-oak-tree-seeds","title":"Northern Red Oak Tree Seeds (Quercus rubra)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe fastest oak in North America. The one that feeds everything.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuercus rubra\u003c\/em\u003e, the Northern Red Oak, is the fastest-growing native oak in eastern North America and one of the most important ecological trees on the continent. It establishes more quickly than any other large oak, tolerates urban soils and pollution better than most, and develops into a massive, wide-spreading shade tree within decades rather than generations. Its acorns, while bitter compared to White Oak, are produced in extraordinary quantities in good mast years and consumed by deer, turkey, bear, blue jays, and over 100 other species. As a host plant for hundreds of native moth and butterfly caterpillars, a Northern Red Oak in a landscape supports more insect biodiversity than almost any other tree you can plant. If you are looking to buy Northern Red Oak seeds or grow red oak from seed, this is the oak that delivers the fastest results with the broadest ecological impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe fastest-growing native oak in North America, gaining 2 to 3 feet per year in ideal conditions\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHosts over 500 species of native caterpillars, more than almost any other tree genus in North America\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBrilliant scarlet to russet-red fall color, one of the best fall displays of any native shade tree\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAdaptable to urban soils, pollution, compacted ground, and a wide range of pH\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProduces heavy acorn crops in mast years, one of the most important wildlife food trees in the East\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThings you probably did not know about the Northern Red Oak\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA single mature Red Oak can support over 500 caterpillar species.\u003c\/strong\u003e Douglas Tallamy's landmark research on native plant ecology documented that oak trees support more species of leaf-eating caterpillars than any other plant genus in eastern North America. These caterpillars are the primary food source for nesting songbirds. A single pair of chickadees raising a clutch of young needs 6,000 to 9,000 caterpillars over a 16-day nesting period. Without oaks, and the caterpillars they support, songbird populations collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe acorns take two years to mature.\u003c\/strong\u003e Red Oak acorns begin developing in the summer of one year and do not ripen until the fall of the following year, a two-year maturation cycle that is characteristic of all Red Oak group members. The bitter tannins that accumulate over this longer development period protect the acorns from premature consumption and are partly broken down through natural processes after the acorns fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlue jays are responsible for planting millions of Red Oaks per year.\u003c\/strong\u003e Blue jays carry up to five acorns at a time in their esophagus and cache them in the ground as a winter food supply. They remember most of their cache locations but forget enough that the unclaimed acorns germinate and establish. Studies have estimated that a single blue jay can plant several thousand acorns per year, making them one of the most important seed dispersers for forest regeneration after logging or disturbance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe wood is the most widely used red oak timber in North American furniture making.\u003c\/strong\u003e Northern Red Oak lumber is the primary wood used in American furniture, flooring, cabinetry, and millwork because of its wide availability, consistent grain, and competitive cost. 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This bark insulates the living cambium from ground fires so effectively that Bur Oaks on the forest-prairie border survived the periodic grassland fires that swept the Great Plains for thousands of years, while other species were repeatedly killed back and regenerated from roots. The Bur Oak did not regenerate. It simply did not burn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt was the landmark tree of the American frontier.\u003c\/strong\u003e Early surveyors and settlers moving onto the Great Plains used isolated Bur Oaks as landmarks and meeting points because they were the most visible trees in an otherwise treeless landscape. 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Entire hillsides of Chestnut Oak were stripped of their bark for the tanneries that operated throughout the Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania mountains. The bark stripping killed the trees but left the bare trunks standing in the landscape for decades, creating the ghost forests of Appalachian tanning history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe acorns are large enough to be practical as a human food with minimal processing.\u003c\/strong\u003e Chestnut Oak acorns contain lower tannin concentrations than most other eastern oaks and were consumed by Indigenous peoples of the Appalachians with less leaching treatment than most acorn species required. The large size means more edible material per nut, and the sweet flavor makes them among the most palatable of any native acorn for direct consumption. 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