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[DouginUtah]

What kind of tree do acorns grow on?

http://www.energybulletin.net/38398.html

Questioning what students know. Sort of like the question "Where does the weight of a tree come from?"

[RSteiner]

The scarry thing is how many people don't care to know.  This is also information you can not learn from video games.

My sister and her kids once collected a bunch of acorns that had fallen from an acron tree and processed them into flour then made bread.  She said it was a good experience for the kids and the bread was different but good.  The process of turning acrons into flour was some what time consuming and she felt King Author did a much better job making flour.

Learning what there is out there growing wild that you can live on is a good thing and knowing where it all comes from helps one respect the environment a littel more.

Randy

[scgargoyle]

Soooo- are ya gonna tell us, or keep us in suspense? ;D I do know that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, and orange juice comes from orangutans.

[DouginUtah]

I'm guessing that it might be oak.  ;D

Do I need to tell you where the weight of a tree comes from also?   ;) :D

[Tom]

too much iron?

[BrandonTN]

Yeah, acorns grow on oaks....that's the "genus", atleast. 

or how about Angiosperms (ie, flower/fleshy fruit producing trees)?  :D

[Coon]

Tom, I think you're definately a little too urbanized. :D ;D ;D

[rebocardo]

I forget which TV station did it, but, they went to FL on spring break and 75% of the college kids could not ID Florida on a map. Kind of funny they couldn't even get the hint of it being south while being at the beach. Might have been Leno who did it.

My mother taught GED at a college in MA to displaced (laid off) workers from a factory. She is in a college building with a classroom looking out onto the ocean and people did not know the name of the ocean out the window nor could they ID it on a map. How hard is it to pick MA out on a map  :-\


So, no surprise on the acorns for me.

[mdvaden]

My first thought was oaks, but my mind held back the answer in case there was something I didn't know about.

Like how Japanese Umbrella Pine is not a pine.

Or how conifers can be deciduous, which was new to me once.

The part the article mentioned about the food source, is something I learned of just in the last month.

[Phorester]

Years ago I needed the address of the Salvation Army office in Harrisonburg, a big city about 70 miles south of me.  I went by the local SA office.  The lady at the desk, looked to be in her 40s,  had never heard of Harrisonburg.  I had to ask her, are you from here?  Yep, she said proudly, born and raised right here.   :

It's also amazing the number of people that can't give directions to their own house.  Some people will just ask me to meet them at a certain store or intersection, then I follow them to their house. This was a major problem for the emergency services before the 911 phone system which automatically gives the address of the phone being used for the call.