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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There are more ancient oaks in England than in all of continental Europe. How is that possible? One would expect to find the reasons in...
By Roderick Cameron
Aug 27, 2017
ArbNet is an interactive community of arboreta, sponsored and coordinated by The Morton Arboretum in cooperation with the American Public...
By Roderick Cameron
Aug 19, 2017
As we celebrate 25 years of the IOS, we take a look at oaks that have an association with silver. In a Species Spotlight Joeri Strijk...
By Roderick Cameron
Aug 19, 2017
An acorn from a specimen of Quercus insignis growing in Hackfalls Arboretum in New Zealand germinated earlier this year. This is very...
By Roderick Cameron
Aug 19, 2017
Twenty-six participants from ten countries arrived to take part in the European celebration of the IOS’s twenty-fifth birthday at Dušan...
By Shaun Haddock
Aug 16, 2017
Quercus argentata is an evergreen tropical oak native to the islands of Borneo (absent in Brunei), Sumatra, and Western Java, as well as to...
By Joeri Strijk
Aug 16, 2017
The subject of the latest addition to our Oak Artist series is Harriet Blum, whose work straddles the media of photography and painting:...
By Roderick Cameron
Jul 16, 2017
Earl Cully, 90, of Jacksonville, Illinois passed away on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at his home. Earl was a long-time member of the...
By Website Editor
Jun 15, 2017
Quercus ithaburensis Decne. is a deciduous oak species native to the East Mediterranean basin.
By Jean Stephan
Jun 5, 2017
A naturally occurring hybrid, widely adopted by the nursery trade in the form of cultivars, labors under a misnomer: there is precious...
By Roderick Cameron
Mar 30, 2017
We are currently requesting accessions data, including provenance information, from all gardens that maintain oak species.
By Emily Beckman
Feb 22, 2017
The Hackfalls Arboretum Catalogue documents an outstanding achievement. New Zealand farmer, dendrologist, and IOS member Bob Berry has...
By Roderick Cameron
Feb 18, 2017
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