Poll: Giant Acorn!

[something daft already!!]

From tiny acorns, mighty pine trees grow.

 

[drakulton]

Do plant the seed and post updates!

Hint: it's not going to grow into an oak tree.

 

[Philtor]

You need to keep calling it an acorn, it's been too late to rename it now.

Do plant the seed and post updates!

I think you are right! I will do just that.

I suspect the seeds are dead but so will get new ones. Acorn trees and Pine trees in the mix.

Trees in general… I do like them but just can’t identify them it would seem lol

 

[NoobCannon]

Vote name change to “acorn”

 

[Bear]

I suspect the seeds are dead but so will get new ones. Acorn trees and Pine trees in the mix.

Its an oak tree not an acorn tree. Acorns are the nut that holds the seed

 

[Haze]

Wow OP live I cave his whole life.....

Clearly that is a queen wasp

 

[Participant]

I'm pretty sure that's actually a conker

Vote name change to “acorn”

Or 'Giant Acorn!'.

Captured for posterity and immortality:

 

[Philtor]

 

[alex24]

We don't know if that's a new or old 50p (1997 date would be inconclusive), so can't verify size of this acorn.

 

[HangTime]

^I was just thinking the same about whether it was a 50p from when he found it or a modern 50p!
I kept a massive pine cone like that for a couple of decades too. Think I just chucked it out in the end.

 

[gort]

I kept a massive pine cone like that for a couple of decades too. Think I just chucked it out in the end.

So you had a pine cone that looked like OP's giant acorn? Nice!

 

[HangTime]

In hindsight I now realise I categorised it incorrectly, been thinking it was a pine cone all these years. Doh!

 

[psd99]

lol at you thinking it was an acorn haha

interesting that it opens and closes still
pretty cool story here

 

[413x]

I thought everyone knew what a pine cone was and an acorn.

It's not like a saying this bulb when it's a rhizome

 

[413x]

I think you are right! I will do just that.

I suspect the seeds are dead but so will get new ones. Acorn trees and Pine trees in the mix.

Trees in general… I do like them but just can’t identify them it would seem lol

You must be trolling now surely?

 

[Yaayuh!]

This thread...

 

[Semple]

Nobody tell this guy after 30+ years

LOL!

 

[psd99]

why does it open and close then? idk the answer to that is it alive?

 

[413x]

why does it open and close then? idk the answer to that is it alive?

I think it's humidity. Its wants to release its seeds when it's raining so opens in humid environments. I think.

Wrong way around.. Closes when it's wet.
Apparently they don't want to release when it's wet as seeds don't disperse so far.

It's not alive.

 

[kaiowas]

^I was just thinking the same about whether it was a 50p from when he found it or a modern 50p!
I kept a massive pine cone like that for a couple of decades too. Think I just chucked it out in the end.

That’s the seed that fell out of it. What the OP has there is the fruit of the fabled ‘magic money tree’