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The oak tree in Skjomendalen © Gerhard Sørensen-Fuglem and Cecilia Piccirilli Bjerkeset
The World’s Northernmost Oak?
An oak grows north of the Arctic Circle in Norway
Website Editor | Aug 14, 2023
Unusual symptoms linked to phytoplasma infection in Quercus humboldtiii, Colombia © Eric Boa
Not Another Oak Calamity…
Symptoms linked to phytoplasma infection found in Quercus...
Website Editor | Aug 06, 2023
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Confusion on a Himalayan Scale: Naming Quercus leucotrichophora
Different names are being used for one species.
Website Editor | Jun 20, 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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Oak Poetry

"Le chêne et le roseau" (The Oak and the Reed) by Jean de La Fontaine

By Website Editor | June 19, 2023
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Previous entries in this series of poems that mention oaks have tended to be complimentary of our favorite genus of trees. In this one, however, the oak plays the anti-hero, proud, haughty, and inflexible opposite the pliant reed that bends but does not break.

"Oak Time" by W.S. Merwin

By Website Editor | March 31, 2023
W.S. Merwin - 1960s. Source: The Merwin Conservancy

Continuing our series of posts of poems that feature oaks: a meditation on the passing of time measured by the lives of ancient oaks.

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"The Oak of Guernica" by William Wordsworth

By Website Editor | December 16, 2022
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A sonnet written by the English Romantic poet in support of the Spanish people during the Peninsular War

"Burning Oak, November" by Joyce Carol Oates

By Website Editor | October 20, 2022
Joyce Carol Oates - Source: Twitter

The fourth in a series of posts of poems featuring oaks.

"I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing" by Walt Whitman

By Website Editor | June 15, 2022
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Our third post of poems featuring oaks again has Quercus virginiana (southern live oak) as its theme, this time in a poem by Walt Whitman.

"Live Oak, with Bromeliads" by Eric Ormsby

By Website Editor | April 16, 2022
Quarters Oak Alley, Evergreen Plantation, Edgard, Louisiana by Wiliam Guion

The second in a new series of posts of poems featuring oaks. Eric Ormsby's poem focuses on Quercus virginiana (southern live oak).

"Oxblood" by James Lasdun

By Website Editor | December 7, 2021
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The first in a series of posts of poems featuring oaks.