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Oak Open Days Penrice Castle and Glanusk Estate, UK, July 1-2, 2023
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Roderick Cameron and Shaun Haddock
Published May 2024 in International Oaks No. 35: 131–142
Introduction
Though the leek (Allium ampeloprasum) and daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) may be more well known as the national emblem and flower of Wales, the national tree is, perhaps unofficially, Quercus petraea (sessile oak or durmast oak). Reason enough to dedicate an Oak Open Day event to the country. The IOS had dipped its toe into North Wales during the UK Oak Open Days in 2016, when it visited Gredington Park, but it retreated back into England for the second day of the event at Ness Botanical Garden near Liverpool. So it was high time for an event dedicated entirely to Wales, which was duly organized for 2020, but Covid had other ideas, and the event finally took place in 2023. (Having said that, the IOS would be hard pressed to dedicate an event to every country whose national tree is an oak: at least nineteen countries have chosen Quercus or an oak species as its national tree, and so far the IOS has held events in five of them.)
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