Usefulness Of Oak Trees
Oak Trees serves as habitat for mushrooms
Oak trees can be cut down into logs, and grow mushrooms. Mushrooms are nutritious, and it has lots of health benefits.
It also has high fiber and protein.
The most interesting thing about mushrooms is that they can be used to fight cancer. It’s a very good diet for those battling with cancer.
Oak trees are medicinal
Our forefathers used oak trees for treating lots of conditions. It is used to treat ailment like rickets that affects children, and it can also be used to treat women that is suffering from vaginal discharge. It was also used for the treatment of hemorrhoids and uterine prolapse.
Oak trees serve as fertilizers to the soil
Due to the large nature of the trees, it sheds thousands of leaves daily, not just leaves, it also sheds branches and moss. If you’ve got an oak tree at your homestead or backyard, you know the effort needed to keep the surroundings neat.
When those leaves shed and decay, it serves as good manure for other crops with its rich nutrients.
Large oak trees serve as homes to various animals
Nature always has its marvelous ways of doing things, most oak trees has an opening that houses useful insects like bees, and rodents such as rats, squirrel, rabbit, mouse and reptiles such as snakes.
Oak trees serve as feed to humans and livestock
Acorns on some oak trees are very nutritious and sweet to be eaten raw, although some are bitter and may require some processing to become eatable.
Oak tree acorns can likewise be used to feed livestock most especially pigs, it boosts their growth and helps them fatten up.
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Nice that you mentioned the mushroom relation with oak trees.
One of my favourite summer/autumn mushrooms is the Boletus Reticulatus that has a symbiotic relation with the Oak tree, we would always look around Oaks especially for that mushroom variant!