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Apr 16, What are those furry, wormlike, pollen-y things falling from your oak tree? The large amount of oak flowers this spring indicates a big acorn crop this bushhaul.barted Reading Time: 3 mins.

Oct 11, Oct 11, Our oak tree is dropping millions of what look like tiny seeds onto our driveway. This is the first time I've ever seen it do that.

But they are everywhere and dangerous to walk on as they create a layer that is very slick. I thought acorns were the seeds of oak trees but that's what these things look like to me.

Mar 02, Live oaks bloom in spring, producing long catkins that drape gracefully from the ends of their branches. If your tree is shedding stringy stuff in spring, it might be engaging in its annual flowering where the long male catkins let loose pounds of yellow pollen and then fall from the tree. Look-alikes: Jumping oak gall, tubakia leaf spot, oak leaf blister, other fungal leaf spots Jumping oak gall Brown leaves appear on trees in the white oak group in late spring.

Severe infections may cause the leaves to turn black, curl up and fall. On the underside are brown galls with the. Apr 22, Young leaves in the spring are often very tender and subject to damage from strong winds. Warm days following cool nights, when combined with frequent spring winds, can cause rapid desiccation of the leaves.

The leaf margin is the most likely injured part of the leaf. Oct 15, There are hundreds of types of galls and perhaps that many that will select oak trees. The tiny 'poppy seeds' on your lawn and under the tree are, indeed, galls, and probably produced by a tiny, harmless wasp.

This type of leaf gall does not harm the tree.