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Call for Session Proposals for the 11th IOS Conference Now Open
Share your oak story in Oaxaca!
Website Editor | Mar 17, 2025
Single stem bleed
Acute Oak Decline and the Decline Disease Spiral Model: the State of the Game in the UK
Steve Potter reviews decline diseases affecting oaks in the...
Steve Potter | Feb 12, 2025
Oak Origins by Andrew Hipp
Book Review: Oak Origins – From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life
A review of Andrew Hipp's new book
Steve Potter | Feb 12, 2025

Plant Focus

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Hybrid Highlight: Quercus ×ludoviciana Sarg.
Quercus ×ludoviciana is a naturally occurring oak hybrid from southeastern United States, which has flourished and attracted attention in...
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Oak Artists

Michael Craig-Martin's "An Oak Tree"

By Website Editor | December 18, 2024
An Oak Tree by Michael Craig-Martin

This work of art is arguably the most significant depiction of an oak in 20th century art.

The Uprooted Oak Emblem of UN's World Refugee Year

By Roderick Cameron | April 13, 2024
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An eloquent symbol features a stylized oak tree

Lotus McElfish: Quercus tardifolia and Others

By Website Editor | June 20, 2023
Quercus tardifolia

This self-taught botanical artist has specialized in Texas native plants.

Richard Geraint Evans: GPS Trees

By Roderick Cameron | February 9, 2023
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An exhibition that beautifully depicts and locates oaks

Dubánci: Acorn Elves with a Wicked Sense of Humor

By Website Editor | June 16, 2022
Icarus Dubanci

Czech artist Petr Václavek has created a fantasy world inhabited by little creatures made from acorns and oak twigs

Oaks on the Rocks

By Roderick Cameron | February 17, 2022
A Garden of Stones with Freedom Tower in background

Andy Goldsworthy's A Garden of Stones at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

United by a Logo

By Allen Coombes | July 31, 2021
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The story of how the IOS logo came into being

Oak-Themed Platinum Proof Coins

By Website Editor | February 12, 2021
2021 Platinum Proof coin

A new five-year series of US Mint coins is based on the lifecycle of the oak

My Second Book

By Keiko Tokunaga | December 12, 2020
Keiko Tokunaga's second book

Keiko Tokunaga's second book, “Illustrated Flora of Fagaceae Trees of the World”, was published in November 2020.

Illustrated Oaks of the World

By David More | April 8, 2020
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David More shares some of his magnificent illustrations of oaks, part of a work-​​in-progress.

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