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A shrub oak from the U.S. Southwest
The second in a new series of posts of poems featuring oaks. Eric Ormsby's poem focuses on Quercus virginiana (southern live oak).
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona.
A section Lobatae oak found in southern Texas may be a distinct, undescribed species.
An update on the diversity of the oaks in Aiken, South Carolina.
Andy Goldsworthy's A Garden of Stones at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Tracking oak phenophases
The decline in regeneration potential of Quercus leucotrichophora is of great concern in the Kumaun Himalayan region.  
Young oaks are ceremonial trees in Serbia.
The oak savanna at Genesee features a collection of large, open-grown oak trees.
Oaks planted to rebuild Denmark's navy have served other uses.
8,500-year-old textile made from oak bast.

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A shrub oak from the U.S. Southwest
The second in a new series of posts of poems featuring oaks. Eric Ormsby's poem focuses on Quercus virginiana (southern live oak).
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona.
A section Lobatae oak found in southern Texas may be a distinct, undescribed species.
An update on the diversity of the oaks in Aiken, South Carolina.
Andy Goldsworthy's A Garden of Stones at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Tracking oak phenophases
The decline in regeneration potential of Quercus leucotrichophora is of great concern in the Kumaun Himalayan region.  
Young oaks are ceremonial trees in Serbia.
The oak savanna at Genesee features a collection of large, open-grown oak trees.
Oaks planted to rebuild Denmark's navy have served other uses.
8,500-year-old textile made from oak bast.

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