The chinkapin's fruit is an interesting small, bur covered nut. The bur has sharp spines, 3/4 to 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Often the burs form in clusters on stems but each bur contains a single ...

One of the world's most important plant families has a history extending much farther south than any live or fossil specimen previously recorded, as shown by chinquapin fruit and leaf fossils ...

Like other members of the white oak group, the bark of chinkapin oak is light gray and ashy, however it has a flaky appearance. The fruit of the chinkapin oak is a small acorn that is dark brown or ...

Steve Bost will show you some Ozark chinquapin trees. “But I’d have to blindfold you before you get in the car,” he jokes. Deep in the rolling southeast Missouri Ozarks, Bost gets out of his ...

When he was a young boy, Fayetteville mayor Lioneld Jordan and his friends would collect the porcupine-like burrs of the Ozark Chinquapin and hammer the husks with the heels of their shoes to get ...

video: Chinquapin fossils found in Patagonia, Argentina are 52.2 million years old and represent the earliest fruit of this family of trees and were found south of the tropics. view more Credit ...