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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
Single stem bleed
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

Plant Focus

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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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Quercus robur

Quercus What? The Oak on the UK’s New 5p Coin

By Steve Potter | August 21, 2024
New 5p coin - Image: The Royal Mint

The oak depicted on the new coin is a challenge to identify.

(Even More) Northernmost Oaks!

By DW Oliver | June 28, 2024
David Oliver and the northernmost oak (to date)

Oaks found close to the 70th parallel north

The World’s Northernmost Oak?

By Website Editor | August 14, 2023
The oak tree in Skjomendalen © Gerhard Sørensen-Fuglem and Cecilia Piccirilli Bjerkeset

An oak grows north of the Arctic Circle in Norway

The Royal Oaks of Penrice Castle, Wales

By Steve Potter | August 6, 2023
Miss Emily Talbot helps plant an oak (number 1 or 2, Quercus ×rosacea aff. robur), 1904; image courtesy Thomas Methuen-Campbell

What species of oak were planted by Royals at Penrice?

The Kaive Oak

By Website Editor | June 14, 2022
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In a meadow in the parish of Sēme, municipality of Tukums, Latvia, some 500 m from Kaive Manor, stands the Kaive Oak.