u/Merc5nake

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▲ 24 r/Tree

I collected acorns from a variety of Oaks trees this past fall that I found on my weekend hiking trips in Southern California. The acorns consist of:

Valley Oak, Coast Live Oak, Blue Oak, Engelmann Oak, California Scrub Oak, Holm Oak and Southern Live Oak all planted on 9/30/25. The larger oaks (Blue Oak, Valley Oak and California Black Oak) I planted from acorn 2 years ago.

The acorns were collected from oak trees I found in Wrightwood, Mt. Baldy, Santa Rosa Plateau, Julian, Five Points and Pasadena. The non-natives (Holm Oak, Southern Live Oak) I found in a Home Depot and Mall parking lots.

u/Merc5nake — 15 days ago