Delaware's state tree is the American Holly, which can reach up to 60 feet tall. District of Columbia Washington, D.C. has its own symbolic tree, despite not being a declared state.

Oak trees grow across a wide swath of the planet, but in winemaking, the two most important sources of the wood are France and the United States. ... “American oak is less tannic, ...

Use leaves, bark, and habitat to identify the black oak tree. ... Black Cherry, an Important North American Tree. Scarlet Oak, A Top 100 Common Tree in North America. Tree Species Taxonomy.

Fire-intolerant trees with far less ecological value — maple, beech, basswood, black gum, tulip trees — have risen to replace the oak, hickory and pine forests, which need regular fire to open ...

In the American South, caterpillars lay their eggs on the leaves of southern live oaks; farther north, they depend on other oak species. Once they become butterflies, though, they are hard to spot ...

It’s an early morning in late summer, and as commuters zip down Rock Creek Parkway—through its thick canopy of American beech, oak, and tulip poplar—one man is slowly circling a massive oak tree, ...

Devlin, on the other hand, focuses more on French oak at Ballentine Vineyards—though he also has a place for the use of American oak. “It’s really about wine style,” he says.