In places where there's no mushroom ban, people from collectors and predators have been going through the mountains a lot during the first moon. The onddozer moves where the acorn is. The plantations that colonize and explore the roots of the trees that give acorns are a good territory for Onddotka. The same applies to motherhood (Quercus pyrenaica), art (Quercus ilex), cork oak (Quercus suber), pedunculated oak (Quercus robur), oak without cande (Quercus petraea), American oak (Quercus rubra), quejigo (Quercus faginea), abary (Quercus fsycinea).

In Euskal Herria we have two very different cultural landscapes. Depending on the main ecological factors, the fruits of the different trees and trees will appear more or less in each of them. That attracts culture and history, each one of them. One, on the Atlantic side, lives and is eating hazelnut (Corylus avellana), apple (Malus domestica), chestnut (Castanea sativa) and pagatxa (Fagus sylvatica). The other, that of the Mediterranean side, is that of pinacy (Pinus spp. ), grapes (Vitis vinifera), olives (Olea europaea) and fig (Ficus carica). However, both have eaten the acorn, the acorn of the Quercus. In both areas there are species of this genus. The acorns of all of them are edible and each year produce a good harvest. Like people, acorns have been used to feed cattle. Fall and winter were going to be shorter and hotter. In September comes the complaint, which is the first, and the last one which falls towards February.

Forest technical engineer Enrique García Gómez has published a nice work on this activity. In their opinion, the acorns of this kind are very rich in ingredients such as fats, especially unsaturated fats, carbohydrates and minerals. But they also have toxins. It is characterized by the bitterness that will produce the acorn bite and that will notice the roof of the mouth, provided by tannins and glycosides.

For us all kinds of acorns are edible, the sweetest is art: the art acorn or scissor. In the arts we have two subspecies, on the Atlantic side Quercus ilex subsp. ilex and Mediterranean Quercus ilex subsp. Ballot. The second is the sweetest, the most appreciated. This whale comes from Arabic and means “art.” Mikel Burgui has gathered that this sweet acorn is called Uxue's "ancina". They also ate until the 60s of the 20th century.

They have been eaten in many different ways, raw or mostly less bitter: chopped and roasted so as not to burst, cooked, in the form of coffee and bounced after grinding. Ethnobotanist Daniel Maria Perez Altamira has stated that eating raw acorns had the healing and magical goal of transferring the strength of oak to the person.

Turn the acorn as food. The Romans, which were abundant in wheat or bread, and which had been cakes of the same pasta, regarded it as primitive or uncultured food, insulted it with contempt, said it was not suitable for people, but it was suitable for animals. What did they think? And another question, to end, how do you tell donors of acorns or edible fruits, tree or tree?