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Piers Trehane
Remembering Piers Trehane
Last March marked the 10 years since the death of Piers...
Roderick Cameron | Apr 13, 2021
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A Propagation Manual for Quercus—in Spanish
A new publication fills a void.
Roderick Cameron | Feb 13, 2021
Emory oak near Young, Arizona © Nanebah Lyndon
Emory Oak Collaborative Tribal Restoration Initiative
Emory oak acorns are a critically important commodity for...
Website Editor | Feb 12, 2021

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Quercus texana New Madrid acorn
Cultivar Close-Up: Quercus ‘New Madrid’, Sorting Out the Confusion
Disentangling the cultivar published as Quercus texana ‘New Madrid’
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Species Spotlight: Quercus georgiana M.A. Curtis

By Ryan Russell | November 18, 2014
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Georgia oak is known from 15 counties in Georgia and possibly small pockets in Alabama, with an unverified report in North Carolina. One of these locations is Stone Mountain, just northeast of Atlanta, GA

Species Spotlight: Quercus austrocochinchinensis Hickel & A. Camus

By Website Editor | March 4, 2014
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Propagation and reintroduction of an endangered oak: Quercus austrocochinchinensis. An article by Qian-sheng Li and Min Deng, orginally published in Oak News & Notes, Vol. 18. No. 1

Species Spotlight: Quercus pubescens Willd.

By Thierry Lamant | March 23, 2013
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Quercus pubescens Willd. is a species with a wide native range, found across the European continent, from Portugal to Lebanon and from Russia into Southern Germany.

A new species of oak, Quercus delgadoana

By Anonymous | July 2, 2011
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An oak in cultivation as Quercus eugeniifolia has now been described as a new species,  Quercus delgadoana S. Valencia, Nixon & L. M. Kelly (Novon June 2011)

Pleistocene clone of Quercus palmeri Engelm.

By IOS Site Admini... | July 1, 2010
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The distribution of Palmer's oak (Quercus palmeri Engelm.) includes numerous isolated populations that are presumably relicts of a formerly larger range that has contracted due to spreading aridity following the end of the Pleistocene.

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