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A new research laboratory and arboretum in Spencers Wood, south of Reading, UK
Adapting the acorn to the modern food system
Images and insights from Ezra Barnea’s journey to Cyprus’s oaks
Endangered oak Quercus hinckleyi shows strong genetic diversity and clonal resilience, making conservation of both genetic and epigenetic...
Andricus coriarus found in the UK for the first time
New paper should significantly change our approach to assessing the risk to oaks from climate change
Mountain building in Mexico and Central America contributed to oak diversity
A new paper explores the use of satellite remote sensing and machine learning to forecast distribution changes of Quercus pyrenaica in...
A visit to Nicholas Smith's oak collection in West Sussex
The first of two UK Open Oak Days started in an unusual but spectacular garden
A poem in which Hölderlin evokes the grandeur and solemn endurance of oaks as living symbols of nature’s strength and humanity’s search for...
The Harvard University Herbaria hosted a novel Oak Taxonomy Workshop.

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Quercus afares, Kew, © James MacEwen
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A new research laboratory and arboretum in Spencers Wood, south of Reading, UK
Adapting the acorn to the modern food system
Images and insights from Ezra Barnea’s journey to Cyprus’s oaks
Endangered oak Quercus hinckleyi shows strong genetic diversity and clonal resilience, making conservation of both genetic and epigenetic...
Andricus coriarus found in the UK for the first time
New paper should significantly change our approach to assessing the risk to oaks from climate change
Mountain building in Mexico and Central America contributed to oak diversity
A new paper explores the use of satellite remote sensing and machine learning to forecast distribution changes of Quercus pyrenaica in...
A visit to Nicholas Smith's oak collection in West Sussex
The first of two UK Open Oak Days started in an unusual but spectacular garden
A poem in which Hölderlin evokes the grandeur and solemn endurance of oaks as living symbols of nature’s strength and humanity’s search for...
The Harvard University Herbaria hosted a novel Oak Taxonomy Workshop.

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The International Oak Society acknowledges the generous support of the following institutions:

Supporting Institutional Members

The John Fairey Garden

Standard Institutional Members

Bartlett Tree Experts logo
Catalina Island Conservancy logo
Forrest Keeling Nursery logo
Houston Botanic Garden logo
KOAGI logo
Oak Spring Foundation
Rice University
San Diego Botanic Garden logo
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance logo
South Carolina Botanical Garden
The Huntington