what are these? white oaks without caps
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From: PA hunter
29-Sep-15
We are finding these under white oaks, they are not wild grapes or anything else I have ever seen. They smell and taste and have same texture as an acorn (yes, I know you should not taste something that you do not know what it is). The only other trees around are jack pines. There are lots of them and deer are eating them up.
From: tonyo6302
29-Sep-15
They look similar to the fruit of the Black Gum Tree.
That would be my guess.
From: PA hunter
29-Sep-15
no black gums in sight, there are oaks, jack pines and a maple here and there.
From: PA hunter
29-Sep-15
no black gums in sight, there are oaks, jack pines and a maple here and there.
From: Knife2sharp
29-Sep-15
If they look, smell and taste like an acorn, must be an acorn, Confucius says.
From: longbeard
29-Sep-15
Smell and texture maybe but they don't look like any acorn I have ever seen
From: Ken
29-Sep-15
If they smell, taste and have the same texture as acorns they could be acorns that didn't fully develop and fell out of the caps before they matured.
From: Brushpile
29-Sep-15
Oak galls or oak apples caused by bug larvae, they are not acorns. I have seen a bunch on red oaks in Wisconsin this year.
From: PA hunter
29-Sep-15
I am finding them right now alongside fully developed white oaks, very strange
From: CAS_HNTR
29-Sep-15
Hmmmm.....under oak that deer have been frequenting. Lots of acorns around. Taste like acorns and have same texture.
ITS A DEER TURD. .....you ate poop!
From: PA hunter
29-Sep-15
I kinda liked it :)
From: Stekewood
29-Sep-15
Wild grapes?
From: Cheesehead Mike
29-Sep-15
I'm pretty sure that one is a penny... ;^)
From: Scrappy
29-Sep-15
Looks like muscadines.
From: Jack Harris
29-Sep-15
Oak galls
From: Bear Track
29-Sep-15
Mike, that was hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!
Oak galls is my guess. Break one open. If it has the same hard shell as an acorn, then that's what it could be, just different.
From: Teeton
29-Sep-15
Teeton's Link
Like some have said,, galls.. Take ur binoculars look up at the leave of the tree and look it over. If you have acorns you will see the acorns or the cap right by where the leave come out of the branches on white oak. Galls most time I think are on leaves. Ed
From: PA hunter
29-Sep-15
Thanks, looks like they are galls.
I have seen them large, brown and dried up, but never like this, they are juicy little berry's.
From: PA hunter
29-Sep-15
Thanks, looks like they are galls.
I have seen them large, brown and dried up, but never like this, they are juicy little berry's.
From: R. Hale
29-Sep-15
When you can get Fuzzy or WV Mountaineer to post you will have the answer. Or, you could you could PM them. Both are active today. Both of those guys know the eastern forest.
From: 12yards
29-Sep-15
Well I'll be gall darned!
From: Bowfreak
29-Sep-15
When you get R.Hale to post it is guaranteed that it is nothing more than tripe.
From: stick n string
29-Sep-15
Pa hunter, i saw a ton of those under oaks where i was huntin in maryland just under Bedford county this weekend. Never saw tyem before was wondwring what the heck they are. Just as u said, found under mature white oaks. No acorns anywhere either....
From: Dennis Razza
29-Sep-15
From: WV Mountaineer
29-Sep-15
Looks like some form of Oak Gal to me. Is there a little hole in them? Cut them open if there is no hole where the larvae has matured and left. God Bless
From: stick n string
29-Sep-15
The ones i saw did not have holes that i noticed. They were pretty soft, and when squeezed, they would split open. Kinda fuzzy on the outside, hollow on the inside
From: Bowjack
29-Sep-15
I believe it is blue cohash fruit. Deer do eat them.
From: bowriter
30-Sep-15
Not and acorn that I have ever seen. Looks to be more in the fruit family. If deer are eating them, hunt the trail to them and find out what it is later. :)
From: Active Shooter
30-Sep-15
Oak Galls. Checkout Teeton's link
From: stick n string
30-Sep-15
They may be that, but what popped up from the link for me does not seem to be the same thing. But could be i reckon
From: willliamtell
30-Sep-15
glass the tree and see if you see any galls still on branches. The ones I notice are bigger than that, but they probably start out small like the ones you found.
From: stick n string
09-Oct-15
Pa, my uncle that works for the Maryland DNR looked into it. Said he had quite a few, but after this last rain, his yard was covered. They had a big meeting and he had brought it up with a few if the guts and nobody knew, but they asked one of the foresters and right away she said they were a cacoon of some sort for some type of fly. They feed off that thing all winter and then pop out in the spring. He said he didnt have time to get into it further, but i told him if he gers a chance, try to find out some more. Would be interesting to see just what kind of bug is in em. He has been in the DNR down there for 40 or so years, and he said he has never noticed them.
