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While working on a list of synonyms of European White Oaks, I came across the work of the remarkable Michel Gandoger.
Michel Gandoger
Posted Mon, 2026-08-24 14:58 in Roderick Cameron's blog
The iconic Quercus suber is in decline
Posted Thu, 2026-06-18 21:09 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Who was Quercus grahamii named in honor of?
q._grahamii_beatrice.jpg
Posted Tue, 2024-12-17 20:04 in Roderick Cameron's blog
An Ansel Adams photograph is featured on a postage stamp.
Stamp with Ansel Adams' Oak Tree, Sunset City
Posted Fri, 2024-12-13 15:59 in Roderick Cameron's blog
A beautiful and sonorous name has sunk into synonymy.
20240927_115114.jpg
Posted Thu, 2024-10-31 00:50 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Santiago Reyna has selected a bushy holm oak with attractive maroon-burgundy leaves.
Burgundy leaves on Q. rotundifolia
Posted Fri, 2024-06-28 13:07 in Roderick Cameron's blog
We all know the best you can do with an acorn (turn it into an oak), but what can we do with a cupule? One answer is: whistle! It is a good skill to learn.
Acorn cap whistler in Extremadura
Posted Wed, 2024-04-17 21:33 in Roderick Cameron's blog
A new stamp issued by the United States Post Office in August 2023 depicts an oak, though not in a form that most quercophiles would recognize.
Oak featured on a new US stamp
Posted Sun, 2023-12-10 13:33 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Shakespeare mentions oaks more than any other tree.
Falstaff at Hern's Oak
Posted Sun, 2023-04-23 15:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Tim Boland brought to our attention an interesting discussion of dispersal of acorns by Blue Jays (
Blue Jays and Oaks by Jay Wright
Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 13:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
An encounter in Taiwan with a genus in Fagaceae I had never heard of.
castnopsis_uraiana_inat2.jpeg
Posted Sat, 2023-04-15 11:44 in Roderick Cameron's blog
A proposal to conserve the name for Hungarian oak
Quercus frainetto
Posted Mon, 2023-02-13 16:11 in Roderick Cameron's blog

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While working on a list of synonyms of European White Oaks, I came across the work of the remarkable Michel Gandoger.
Michel Gandoger
Posted Mon, 2026-08-24 14:58 in Roderick Cameron's blog
The iconic Quercus suber is in decline
Posted Thu, 2026-06-18 21:09 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Who was Quercus grahamii named in honor of?
q._grahamii_beatrice.jpg
Posted Tue, 2024-12-17 20:04 in Roderick Cameron's blog
An Ansel Adams photograph is featured on a postage stamp.
Stamp with Ansel Adams' Oak Tree, Sunset City
Posted Fri, 2024-12-13 15:59 in Roderick Cameron's blog
A beautiful and sonorous name has sunk into synonymy.
20240927_115114.jpg
Posted Thu, 2024-10-31 00:50 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Santiago Reyna has selected a bushy holm oak with attractive maroon-burgundy leaves.
Burgundy leaves on Q. rotundifolia
Posted Fri, 2024-06-28 13:07 in Roderick Cameron's blog
We all know the best you can do with an acorn (turn it into an oak), but what can we do with a cupule? One answer is: whistle! It is a good skill to learn.
Acorn cap whistler in Extremadura
Posted Wed, 2024-04-17 21:33 in Roderick Cameron's blog
A new stamp issued by the United States Post Office in August 2023 depicts an oak, though not in a form that most quercophiles would recognize.
Oak featured on a new US stamp
Posted Sun, 2023-12-10 13:33 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Shakespeare mentions oaks more than any other tree.
Falstaff at Hern's Oak
Posted Sun, 2023-04-23 15:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Tim Boland brought to our attention an interesting discussion of dispersal of acorns by Blue Jays (
Blue Jays and Oaks by Jay Wright
Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 13:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
An encounter in Taiwan with a genus in Fagaceae I had never heard of.
castnopsis_uraiana_inat2.jpeg
Posted Sat, 2023-04-15 11:44 in Roderick Cameron's blog
A proposal to conserve the name for Hungarian oak
Quercus frainetto
Posted Mon, 2023-02-13 16:11 in Roderick Cameron's blog

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