oak apple

These turn reddish in the fall and are commonly known as oak apples.

The holiday is still celebrated today as Oak Apple Day.

On some oak trees, larger galls can be seen and these are called oak apples.

Oak apples are galls on oaks made by the gall wasp.

A much richer and deeper black dye was eventually found made from the Oak apple or gall-nut.

Bock's description of oak apples is noted in the entomologists data base.

Another species of gall wasp is noted for creating the odd-looking oak apple.

'Oak apples', green or yellow ball of up to 5 cm in size, are the most spectacular.

In 1660, he came back to England to be the king and Charles named that day "Oak apple day".

This term may even have extended to plant galls, as they were thought to be of plant origin (see oak apple).

Oak apples may be brownish, yellowish, greenish, pinkish or reddish.

It is one of the few villages that still celebrates Oak Apple Day on 29 May each year.

Oak apple is the common name for a large, round, vaguely apple-like gall commonly found on many species of oak.

In the afternoon there is a formal meal, and other events for villagers in Oak Apple Field.

Considerable confusion exists in the general 'literature' between the oak apple and the oak marble gall.

The match was to celebrate Restoration Day, also known as Oak Apple Day.

Oak Apple Day, a holiday in the United Kingdom to celebrate the restoration of the Monarchy.

Oak Apple Day (England)

Now we wake the sleeping daws who have never seen a human form; now we tread on rotten oak apples, red with age and slippery.

This event was celebrated nationally on 29 May as Oak Apple Day, which is continued to this day in some communities.

The public holiday, Oak Apple Day, was formally abolished in 1859, but the date retains some significance in local or institutional customs.

At some Oxford and Cambridge colleges a toast is still drunk to celebrate Oak Apple Day .

To commemorate this, each year on Oak Apple Day (29 May), an oak branch is mounted on the top of the church tower.

The village still celebrates Oak Apple Day / Arbor Day, a now abolished public holiday.

Oak Apple Day is also celebrated in the Cornish village of St Neot annually.