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Six oak cultivars originally described by Jef Van Meulder in 2014.
An article published in Scientific American recounts how advances in genomics have allowed researchers to reconstruct the evolutionary...
One of the largest oaks at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens has fallen.
Researchers have unearthed a collection of chinquapin fruit and leaf fossils in Patagonia that suggests the Fagaceae family has...
Mightywild.com provides an insight into the trials and tribulations of an edible acorn startup.
Quercus stenophylloides is a medium-sized evergreen oak (15–18 m tall) restricted to central and northern Taiwan.
A database that pools information on oak trees in collections around the world.
An intercontinental artificial hybrid raised at Arboretum national des Barres.
First described by the Japanese botanist Bunzō Hayata in 1913, Quercus hypophaea is a medium to large evergreen oak restricted to the...
David More shares some of his magnificent illustrations of oaks, part of a work-​​in-progress.
A project aims to recover and restore habitats in Serra de Monchique, Portugal.

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Six oak cultivars originally described by Jef Van Meulder in 2014.
An article published in Scientific American recounts how advances in genomics have allowed researchers to reconstruct the evolutionary...
One of the largest oaks at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens has fallen.
Researchers have unearthed a collection of chinquapin fruit and leaf fossils in Patagonia that suggests the Fagaceae family has...
Mightywild.com provides an insight into the trials and tribulations of an edible acorn startup.
Quercus stenophylloides is a medium-sized evergreen oak (15–18 m tall) restricted to central and northern Taiwan.
A database that pools information on oak trees in collections around the world.
An intercontinental artificial hybrid raised at Arboretum national des Barres.
First described by the Japanese botanist Bunzō Hayata in 1913, Quercus hypophaea is a medium to large evergreen oak restricted to the...
David More shares some of his magnificent illustrations of oaks, part of a work-​​in-progress.
A project aims to recover and restore habitats in Serra de Monchique, Portugal.

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