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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
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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

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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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"The Haunted Oak" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
A harrowing tale of a lynching and the withering of an oak bough
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Oak Poetry
By Website Editor
Oct 23, 2023
Texas Oak Open Days - October 12–16, 2023
Five days of oaking in the Lone Star State.
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Group photos Texas OODs
Oak Open Days
By Roderick Cameron
Oct 21, 2023
IOS Holds Its Inaugural Virtual Event
An account of IOS Webinar #1
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Webinar Reports
By Nikola Šušić
Oct 20, 2023
IOS Tour of Oregon, September 2023
An account of the Tour guided by Sean Hogan
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Tour Participants on Fiddler Peak
Trip Reports
By Website Editor
Oct 19, 2023
The Oak Collection at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
A collection specializing in native Californian oaks
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Quercus pacifica
Gardens & Arboreta
By Christina Varnava
Oct 18, 2023
Oak Open Days in Wales: Penrice and Glanusk
First OODs since 2019 held in the UK
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Discussing remedial pruning at Penrice © Sairus Patel
Oak Open Days
By Roderick Cameron
Aug 15, 2023
The World’s Northernmost Oak?
An oak grows north of the Arctic Circle in Norway
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The oak tree in Skjomendalen © Gerhard Sørensen-Fuglem and Cecilia Piccirilli Bjerkeset
Dendrology
By Website Editor
Aug 14, 2023
Species Spotlight: Quercus boyntonii
A Critically Endangered dwarf oak 
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A small but mature Alabama sandstone oak producing acorns © Patrick Thompson
Plant Focus
By Website Editor
Aug 11, 2023
Not Another Oak Calamity…
Symptoms linked to phytoplasma infection found in Quercus humboldtii in Colombia
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Unusual symptoms linked to phytoplasma infection in Quercus humboldtiii, Colombia © Eric Boa
Dendrology
By Website Editor
Aug 6, 2023
The Royal Oaks of Penrice Castle, Wales
What species of oak were planted by Royals at Penrice?
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Miss Emily Talbot helps plant an oak (number 1 or 2, Quercus ×rosacea aff. robur), 1904; image courtesy Thomas Methuen-Campbell
Dendrology
By Steve Potter
Aug 6, 2023
Conservation of Fagaceae Forests of Southeastern Taiwan: Update
Latest news on Fagaceae conservation efforts in Taiwan
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The ginger seedlings are growing well, but soil fertility has been completely destroyed © Kuoh-Cheng Yang
Dendrology
By Yi-Shan Tsai
Aug 5, 2023
Lotus McElfish: Quercus tardifolia and Others
This self-taught botanical artist has specialized in Texas native plants.
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Quercus tardifolia
Oak Artists
By Website Editor
Jun 20, 2023

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