Acorns: One of these Things is Not Like the Others

One of my Clients has a “treasured” Oak tree in the open land beside her garden, and last autumn she asked me if it was possible to take cuttings from it. I replied that it was possible, but not very efficient, and would require some fairly intensive management: unlike Dogwood, it's not as simple as “chop off a bit and shove it in the ground”... more of that, at another date.

Easier, I said, to collect some acorns and grow them on: even easier to check under the tree and around the garden for little seedlings which helpful Cyril the Squirrel (as she calls him, although personally I doubt that she has just “one” squirrel) has buried.

So I went in search of acorns, and this is all I could find:

It's fairly obvious that the bottom two are proper acorns, the third one up is a malformed, teeny tiny acorn, which probably won't succeed: the fourth one up is a bit weird, and what the heck is the top one?

It's not an acorn at all, but I brought it home anyway, to show to you....

 

 

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