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Plant Focus

For this Species Spotlight we train our follow spot on an oak that is quite a star of the quercine scene: Quercus hypoleucoides (stage name...

Max Winkeljohn

Published May 2023 in International Oaks No. 34: 159–164

Gillian M. Ross and Valerie C. Pence

Published May 2023 in International Oaks No. 34: 149–158

Andrew L. Hipp, with Kieran Althaus, Allen J. Coombes, M. Socorro González-Elizondo, Antonio González-Rodríguez, Marlene Hahn, Paul Manos, and Hernando Rodríguez Correa

Published May 2023 in International Oaks No. 34: 125–139

 

We experience changes whose duration we note and measure as though they were all – or even anything. But we experience as well a continuing present which neither we nor the Mayas approach or depart from, a present which neither develops nor declines. It is there. The changes do not express it.

Maricela Rodríguez-Acosta and Allen J. Coombes

Published May 2023 in International Oaks No. 34: 117–124

Abstract

At the end of 2019, Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) proposed a new initiative to protect trees: Global Conservation Consortia, each focused on a specific group of plants of special interest. To date, eight such Consortia have been created, coordinated by BGCI, with the one for oaks led by the Morton Arboretum.

Dong-Mei Jin, Quan Yuan, Xi-Ling Dai, Gregor Kozlowski, and Yi-Gang Song

Published May 2023 in International Oaks No. 34: 111–116

Tony Gurnoe

Published May 2023 in International Oaks No. 34: 105–110

Abstract

A recently discovered, small, and disjunct population of Quercus cedrosensis just north of the US border with Mexico faces a barrage of threats from wildfires, drought, and succumbing to bulldozer blades during border-wall construction.

Amit Raphael Zoran

Published May 2023 in International Oaks No. 34: 99–104

Mark Krautmann

Published May 2023 in International Oaks No. 34: 91–98

Roderick Cameron

Published May 2023 in International Oaks No. 34: 71–80

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