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Carlos collecting Quercus ×alentejana (Q. faginea × Q. pyrenaica) in northeastern Portugal for his PhD thesis © Carlos Vila-Viçosa
The Long and Hilly Journey of Oak Conservation: Carlos Vila-Viçosa
An interview with Portuguese oak conservationist Dr. Carlos...
Amy Byrne | Apr 19, 2024
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The Uprooted Oak Emblem of UN's World Refugee Year
Roderick Cameron | Apr 13, 2024
Pages from Gert's book
A New Book on Trompenburg Tuinen & Arboretum
It was a great pleasure for me to be able to write about my...
Gert Fortgens | Feb 15, 2024

Plant Focus

Quercus crassipes acorns with inrolled cupule margin
Species Spotlight: Quercus crassipes Bonpl.
One of the more well-known Mexican oaks in cultivation.
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Oak Artists

The Uprooted Oak Emblem of UN's World Refugee Year

By Roderick Cameron | April 13, 2024
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Ceylon First Day Cover
First Day Cover of World Refugee Year stamps issued by Ceylon, with the uprooted oak emblem printed on the envelope (left) - Image: www.stampcommunity.org

Lotus McElfish: Quercus tardifolia and Others

By Website Editor | June 20, 2023
Quercus tardifolia

This self-taught botanical artist has specialized in Texas native plants.

Richard Geraint Evans: GPS Trees

By Roderick Cameron | February 9, 2023
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An exhibition that beautifully depicts and locates oaks

Dubánci: Acorn Elves with a Wicked Sense of Humor

By Website Editor | June 16, 2022
Icarus Dubanci

Czech artist Petr Václavek has created a fantasy world inhabited by little creatures made from acorns and oak twigs

Oaks on the Rocks

By Roderick Cameron | February 17, 2022
A Garden of Stones with Freedom Tower in background

Andy Goldsworthy's A Garden of Stones at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

United by a Logo

By Allen Coombes | July 31, 2021
IOS logo

The story of how the IOS logo came into being

Oak-Themed Platinum Proof Coins

By Website Editor | February 12, 2021
2021 Platinum Proof coin

A new five-year series of US Mint coins is based on the lifecycle of the oak

My Second Book

By Keiko Tokunaga | December 12, 2020
Keiko Tokunaga's second book

Keiko Tokunaga's second book, “Illustrated Flora of Fagaceae Trees of the World”, was published in November 2020.

Illustrated Oaks of the World

By David More | April 8, 2020
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David More shares some of his magnificent illustrations of oaks, part of a work-​​in-progress.

Harriet Blum's Live Oaks

By Roderick Cameron | July 16, 2017
Fiarchild Oak

The subject of the latest addition to our Oak Artist series is Harriet Blum, whose work straddles the media of photography and painting: her idiosyncratic technique involves infrared film photography and hand-coloring with transparent oils and pencils.

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