a) Newfoundland b) Yukon c) Ottawa d) the Arctic
answer: the Arctic! (Today, black walnuts bear nuts only as far north as Calumet Island Ontario.)
a) chickadee b) osprey c) bluejay d) nuthatch
answer: Ospreys eat almost entirely fish. All the others just love nuts, of all kinds.
a) red oak b) white oak c) butternut d) beech
answer: red oak. Its acorns take two years to mature and contain a great deal of tannin. White oak acorns are often called 'the grain that grows on trees' and were widely used by our First Peoples for food. Butternut and beech both have delicious nuts.
a) ginkgo b) beaked hazel c) horsechestnut d) shagbark hickory
answer: horsechestnut. You can find lots of delicious recipes for the others in our Recipes in a Nutshell.
a) oak b) hickory c) beaked hazel d) ginkgo
answer: 1) beaked hazel
a) hackberry b) butternut c) oak d) beech
answer: oak leaf galls make an excellent ink.
a) white oak b) hackberry c) horsechestnut d) butternut
answer: hackberry. White oak nuts are called acorns; both horsechestnut and butternut grow full size nuts.
a) horsechestnut b) ginkgo c) beaked hazel d) hackberry
answer: ginkgo.
a) horsechestnut b) ginkgo c) beaked hazel d) hackberry
answer: ginkgo. And how! (Because of the smell produced by rotting ginkgo fruit, most ginkgos used in landscaping are male trees that don't produce fruit.)
a) black walnut b) shagbark c) white oak d) horsechestnut
answer: horsechestnut leaves, made up of up to 7 leaflets, can reach 20 cm in diameter. Black walnut leaves reach 20 cm in length but only 12 cm in width, with up to 23 leaflets; shagbark 15 cm length and 12 cm width; white oak 15 cm in length and 10 cm wide. Of course, the single leaf of white oak is much bigger than the leaflets of the others.
a) hackberry b) black walnut c) bur oak d) beech
answer: in Eastern Ontario, black walnut. However, ECSONG has an experimental plantation of bur oak from Texas whose acorns are larger than most black walnut, so the answer to this question may change in a few years.
a) bur oak b) shagbark hickory c) black walnut d) beech
answer: as the name might tell you, shagbark hickory!
a) red oak b) beech c) ginkgo d) butternut
answer: beech.
Which nut tree is most widespread in Canada?
a) black walnut b) bitternut hickory c) bur oak d) beaked hazel
answer: bur oak - it ranges from the north end of Lake Winnipegosis Manitoba through New Liskeard Ontario and Quebec City to the west side of the Bay of Fundy. (Beaked hazel might be more widespread, but is not a tree!)
a) butternut b) beech c) beaked hazel d) black walnut
answer: beech.
a) black walnut b) ginkgo c) hackberry d) red oak
answer: black walnut.
a) butternut b) ginkgo c) horsechestnut d) white oak
answer: members of the white oak group normally sprout in the fall. The others mentioned normally require a cold period (stratification) before they will sprout.
a) white oak b) bur oak c) swamp white oak d) red oak
answer: all members of the red oak family have pointed lobes. The others are members of the white oak group which have rounded lobes.
a) red squirrel b) fox squirrel c) black squirrel d) gray squirrel
answer: red squirrels cache seeds in dry locations such as hollows in trees. (Our black-coloured squirrels are a colour morph of Sciurus carolinensis, the 'gray squirrel'. Fox squirrels are a southern species and have not been recorded in Eastern Ontario.)
a) red oak b) bur oak c) beaked hazel d) butternut
answer: bur oak is found at the north end of Lake Winnipegosis Manitoba, 54°N. Red oak grows on the north edge of the Gaspé peninsula at 49.2°N; beaked hazel is known from Timmins Ontario, 48.5°N, while butternut reaches only to the Isle d'Orléans, 47°N.