Editor's Picks
Three oak-related news items have been brought to my...
Roderick Cameron
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Dec 18, 2018
It may surprise you to learn that we are not the first Oak...
Shaun Haddock
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Dec 15, 2018
This blog post focuses on the day and a half we spent in...
Charles Snyers
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Dec 02, 2018
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...
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Given its rugged beauty and hardiness, Quercus rugosa is recommended for gardens, parks, and arboreta in most regions. As it grows...
By Roderick Cameron
Aug 15, 2018
In October 2017, I visited Palomar Mountain State Park, San Diego County, California to collect acorns of the interior live oak, Quercus...
By Dirk Giseburt
Aug 15, 2018
New research published in Nature Plants provides insights into why oaks are long lived.
By Website Editor
Jun 19, 2018
North America is home to 91 species of oak trees. Astoundingly, the various species rarely, if ever, occur alone. Where one kind of oak is...
By Website Editor
Jun 13, 2018
To honor Estonia’s centenary, we chose as subject for this article in our series on Historic Oaks, Estonia’s largest, oldest, and most...
By Roderick Cameron
Jun 10, 2018
Illinois State Museum features dwarf chinkapin oak, discovered in Illinois during an IOS Tour, as part of the Illinois Bicentennial...
By Website Editor
Jun 3, 2018
Plant pathologists from the California Department of Agriculture (CDFA) recently identified a new species of fungal pathogen that infects...
By Website Editor
Jun 3, 2018
Ed Holm lived in Redwood City, California and was born on 4 September 1930 and died 1 January 2018.
By Guy Sternberg
Apr 19, 2018
There are meetings that prove to be crucial, primordial encounters that mark our lives. My meeting with Michel Timacheff, an afternoon of...
By Thierry Lamant
Apr 10, 2018
Rainer Lippert has always been interested in old trees. At the age of 16 he started to visit the largest trees in his home district in...
By Website Editor
Apr 7, 2018
It sounds like something out of science fiction, but David Cranwell has managed to create a reality where an acorn planted in New Zealand...
By Website Editor
Apr 2, 2018
Since 2012 I have traveled to Costa Rica four times, searching for acorns of some Quercus species that were not represented in the...
By Francisco Garin...
Feb 16, 2018
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