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Group photo at The Savill Garden
UK Oak Open Days: June 15–17, 2024
Three-day event included visits to two parks in Berkshire...
Roderick Cameron | Aug 18, 2024
Rebekah Mohn presenting at IBC 2024
Oak-related Presentations and Posters at IBC 2024 in Madrid
Several abstracts included research involving Quercus.
Website Editor | Aug 13, 2024
Participants at the Oak Study Day in Arboretum des Pouyouleix
French Oak Open Days: 8–12 June, 2024
This five-day event included visits to four oak collections...
Website Editor | Aug 12, 2024

Plant Focus

Quercus dumosa acorn
Species Spotlight: Quercus dumosa Nutt.
Animals, plants, and fungi depend on this humble tree, but its future—and theirs—is all but certain.
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Book Reviews

William Guion's Latest Book

By Website Editor | February 10, 2023
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Stories and portraits of Louisiana’s oldest live oak trees

Book Review: Illustrated Flora of Fagaceae Trees of the World

By Shaun Haddock | February 9, 2021
Keiko Tokunaga's Illustrated Fagaceae

Shaun Haddock reviews Keiko Tokunaga's latest book.

Book Review: The Oak Papers

By Roderick Cameron | August 19, 2020
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An homage to the oak tree and the important role it plays today, in our landscape and in our lives

Book Review: The Bench Grafter's Handbook

By Gert Fortgens | December 11, 2019
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A new book provides a comprehensive guide to the skills and knowledge involved in grafting temperate woody plants.

Eating Acorns to Save the World

By Roderick Cameron | August 7, 2019
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Marcie Mayer’s new book, Eating Acorns, has soft “wipeable”covers that seem resistant to kitchen stains and acorn-flour fingerprints, ideal for a recipe book. But don’t be deceived, it is much more than that:

Louisiana Live Oaks

By Shaun Haddock | June 6, 2019
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For over thirty years Bill Guion has pursued and photographed the live oaks of Louisiana.

Book Review: The Glorious Life of the Oak

By Sally Kenyon | March 20, 2019
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Lloyd Kenyon reviews a book on oaks by John Lewis-Stempel.

Giant German Oaks

By Website Editor | October 11, 2017
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Our German speaking members will be interested to learn that a new book on giant oaks in Germany was published in September 2017: Riesige Eichen: Baumpersönlichkeiten und ihre Geschichten (Giant Oaks: Tree personalities and their stories). 

Book Review: Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape

By Roderick Cameron | August 27, 2017
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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 aspects of climate or soil, but Aljos Farjon has come up with a different answer: it is humans and in particular privileged hunters, rather than the environment, that are responsible.

Catalogue of a Life's Work

By Roderick Cameron | February 18, 2017
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The Hackfalls Arboretum Catalogue documents an outstanding achievement. New Zealand farmer, dendrologist, and IOS member Bob Berry has amassed a collection of over 3,000 taxa at the homestead of his family farm in Tiniroto, near Gisborne, and now has published his database, including many photos of trees and close-ups of leaves.

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