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Steve Potter recounts a frustrated yet rewarding hunt for the hybrid
Posted Wed, 2025-10-22 20:47 in Steve Potter's blog
A campaign to conserve ancient oak woodland in the UK
Possibly the only famous fragment of temperate rainforest in Britain: Wistman’s Wood on Dartmoor, Devon © Alan Hunt - reproduced under Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0
Posted Fri, 2025-06-27 19:01 in Steve Potter's blog
The oak depicted on the new coin is a challenge to identify.
New 5p coin - Image: The Royal Mint
Posted Wed, 2024-08-21 12:54 in Steve Potter's blog

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Past IOS President Allen Coombes, Curator of Scientific Collections at Puebla University Botanic Garden, discusses leaf variability in Quercus ceirpes (still image from the documentary)
A new documentary by Maricela Rodríguez Acosta
Website Editor | Feb 17, 2026
Quercus miyagii acorn and dried leaves
A rare oak endemic to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan
Elion Jam | Feb 16, 2026
A moss-covered oak (Quercus orocantabrica) in Mata de Albergaria, Peneda-Gerês National Park, Portugal  © Amit Zoran
Steve Potter reviews a new book that features oaks
Steve Potter | Feb 11, 2026

Plant Focus

Quercus canariensis in Cornwall Park, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand, the champion specimen in New Zealand, planted in the 1920s, 27.2 m tall with a trunk diameter of 209 cm (G. Collett pers. comm. 2026)  © Gerald Collett
Antonio Lambe shares his views on this threatened oak native to Iberia and North Africa

Steve Potter's blog

Steve Potter recounts a frustrated yet rewarding hunt for the hybrid
Posted Wed, 2025-10-22 20:47 in Steve Potter's blog
A campaign to conserve ancient oak woodland in the UK
Possibly the only famous fragment of temperate rainforest in Britain: Wistman’s Wood on Dartmoor, Devon © Alan Hunt - reproduced under Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0
Posted Fri, 2025-06-27 19:01 in Steve Potter's blog
The oak depicted on the new coin is a challenge to identify.
New 5p coin - Image: The Royal Mint
Posted Wed, 2024-08-21 12:54 in Steve Potter's blog

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