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Group photos Texas OODs
Five days of oaking in the Lone Star State.
Roderick Cameron | Oct 21, 2023
Tour Participants on Fiddler Peak
An account of the Tour guided by Sean Hogan
Website Editor | Oct 19, 2023
Quercus pacifica
An collection specializing in native Californian oaks
Christina Varnava | Oct 18, 2023

Plant Focus

A small but mature Alabama sandstone oak producing acorns © Patrick Thompson
A Critically Endangered dwarf oak 

Patrick Vereecke's blog

Frère Sennen's Names

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The author Sennen crops up regularly among the Spanish oaks. He described a number of species from Spain and had an eye for hybrids, a trait that can also be seen in work he did in other genera.

Quercus obtecta's hidden epithet uncovered

Quercus warkoensir??

The Diversity of the Epithet “dshorochensis”

Quercus dschorochensis

An unusual name based on a river in Turkey has quite a few variants

Does Quercus cerris Grow In Spain?

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Linnaeus wrote in his prologue of Quercus cerris that it "lives in Spain," but the species does not occur naturally there...

Mysterious Hansen Name Unveiled

In some oak databases one can find a few oak names described by a certain Hansen. And in every instance there is no link to a publication whatsoever...