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Group photos Texas OODs
Texas Oak Open Days - October 12–16, 2023
Five days of oaking in the Lone Star State.
Roderick Cameron | Oct 21, 2023
Tour Participants on Fiddler Peak
IOS Tour of Oregon, September 2023
An account of the Tour guided by Sean Hogan
Website Editor | Oct 19, 2023
Quercus pacifica
The Oak Collection at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
An collection specializing in native Californian oaks
Christina Varnava | Oct 18, 2023

Plant Focus

A small but mature Alabama sandstone oak producing acorns © Patrick Thompson
Species Spotlight: Quercus boyntonii
A Critically Endangered dwarf oak 
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Quercus rugosa

Is Quercus rugosa Showing Its Roots?

By Allen Coombes | October 18, 2022
Lobed leaf on Quercus rugosa

An unusual shoot on a tree at the Puebla University Botanic Garden in Mexico.

A Spontaneous Quercus rugosa in Pretoria?

By Tjeerd de Wit | October 16, 2022
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Being a lover of nature and photography, I often saunter around in a narrow mountain ridge in Pretoria, South Africa, with the purpose of getting some exercise, enjoying nature and photography, and documenting biodiversity. The ridge is part of the Magaliesberg mountain range and makes up the easternmost 10-km strip of the Magaliesberg Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO protected area stretching over 120 km to the west.