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Who was Quercus grahamii named in honor of?
Roderick Cameron | Dec 17, 2024
Quercus rubra in autumn
The Tree of the Year Association in Germany selected a non-...
Website Editor | Dec 16, 2024
Image from Enarrationes
A 16th century commentary on the medicinal property of oaks...
Website Editor | Dec 16, 2024

Plant Focus

Quercus magnosquamata acorn
A  little-known species from the northern Zagros forests of Iran

Blogs

Tim Boland brought to our attention an interesting discussion of dispersal of acorns by Blue Jays (
Blue Jays and Oaks by Jay Wright
Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 13:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Maricela Rodríguez interviewed staff and owners at key oak collections in the UK. 
Propagating oaks by cuttings
Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 13:10 in Website Editor's blog
Angela Moskow shared some disturbing accounts of oak poisonings.
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Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 10:01 in Website Editor's blog
An encounter in Taiwan with a genus in Fagaceae I had never heard of.
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Posted Sat, 2023-04-15 11:44 in Roderick Cameron's blog
An article by Tim Boland and Matt Lobdell on why oaks are "ecological warhorses"
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Posted Wed, 2023-02-15 17:43 in Website Editor's blog
A proposal to conserve the name for Hungarian oak
Quercus frainetto
Posted Mon, 2023-02-13 16:11 in Roderick Cameron's blog
The Tree Conservation Biology lab at The Morton Arboretum contributed an article to the Kew Millennium Seed Bank Partnership newsletter, Samara.
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Posted Fri, 2023-02-10 21:38 in Sean Hoban's blog
IOS founding member and oak doyen Guy Sternberg was interviewed by Vanessa Ferguson for NPR Illinois.
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Posted Thu, 2022-12-15 15:47 in Website Editor's blog
Many oaks have been planted as memorial trees near the Capitol
Quercus marilandica and the Capitol
Posted Wed, 2022-12-14 17:27 in Roderick Cameron's blog
An unusual shoot on a tree at the Puebla University Botanic Garden in Mexico.
Lobed leaf on Quercus rugosa
Posted Tue, 2022-10-18 11:05 in Allen Coombes's blog
Being a lover of nature and photography, I often saunter around in a narrow mountain ridge in Pretoria, South Africa, with the purpose of getting some exercise, enjoying nature and photography
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Posted Sun, 2022-10-16 10:49 in Tjeerd de Wit's blog

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