Jessica Jones, an arborist with San Antonio Tree Surgeons, said the best way to identify oak wilt is by examining the leaves of a live oak.

Different oak trees produce different looking acorns. Most tree books I have say that it can be easier to properly identify an oak by its acorns than it often is by its leaves.

If you have more than one live oak in your landscape, you probably have sprouts emerging from the ground from at least one mature tree and maybe other sprouts spread over the landscape. Some ...