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Texas Oak Open Days - October 12–16, 2023
Five days of oaking in the Lone Star State.
Roderick Cameron | Oct 21, 2023
Tour Participants on Fiddler Peak
IOS Tour of Oregon, September 2023
An account of the Tour guided by Sean Hogan
Website Editor | Oct 19, 2023
Quercus pacifica
The Oak Collection at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
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
Species Spotlight: Quercus boyntonii
A Critically Endangered dwarf oak 
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Patrick Vereecke's blog

Frère Sennen's Names

By Patrick Vereecke | February 13, 2022
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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

By Patrick Vereecke | March 26, 2021
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Until recently, the name had been considered unplaced

Quercus warkoensir??

By Patrick Vereecke | February 9, 2021
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A strange oak name explained

The Diversity of the Epithet “dshorochensis”

By Patrick Vereecke | February 6, 2021
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An unusual name based on a river in Turkey has quite a few variants

Does Quercus cerris Grow In Spain?

By Patrick Vereecke | December 2, 2020
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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

By Patrick Vereecke | February 14, 2016

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...