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Illinois State Museum features dwarf chinkapin oak, discovered in Illinois during an IOS Tour, as part of the Illinois Bicentennial...
Plant pathologists from the California Department of Agriculture (CDFA) recently identified a new species of fungal pathogen that infects...
Ed Holm lived in Redwood City, California and was born on 4 September 1930 and died 1 January 2018.
There are meetings that prove to be crucial, primordial encounters that mark our lives. My meeting with Michel Timacheff, an afternoon of...
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...
It sounds like something out of science fiction, but David Cranwell has managed to create a reality where an acorn planted in New Zealand...
Since 2012 I have traveled to Costa Rica four times, searching for acorns of some Quercus species that were not represented in the...
The Oaks of the Americas Conservation Network (OACN) is an interdisciplinary consortium of oak experts from universities, botanic gardens,...
As Co-Registrar of oak cultivars I think it’s important to periodically remind members about some of the exceptional selections of oaks...
The Botanical Garden of Porto is located on the west side of the city of Porto, on a plateau overlooking the mouth of the Douro River and...
Quercus semecarpifolia, commonly known as brown oak, is the main forest-forming evergreen tree species from upper temperate to subalpine...
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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Illinois State Museum features dwarf chinkapin oak, discovered in Illinois during an IOS Tour, as part of the Illinois Bicentennial...
Plant pathologists from the California Department of Agriculture (CDFA) recently identified a new species of fungal pathogen that infects...
Ed Holm lived in Redwood City, California and was born on 4 September 1930 and died 1 January 2018.
There are meetings that prove to be crucial, primordial encounters that mark our lives. My meeting with Michel Timacheff, an afternoon of...
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...
It sounds like something out of science fiction, but David Cranwell has managed to create a reality where an acorn planted in New Zealand...
Since 2012 I have traveled to Costa Rica four times, searching for acorns of some Quercus species that were not represented in the...
The Oaks of the Americas Conservation Network (OACN) is an interdisciplinary consortium of oak experts from universities, botanic gardens,...
As Co-Registrar of oak cultivars I think it’s important to periodically remind members about some of the exceptional selections of oaks...
The Botanical Garden of Porto is located on the west side of the city of Porto, on a plateau overlooking the mouth of the Douro River and...
Quercus semecarpifolia, commonly known as brown oak, is the main forest-forming evergreen tree species from upper temperate to subalpine...
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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