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A documentary inspired by a painting of an oak in Israel.
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Oct 01, 2020
Plant Focus
A guest post by Matt Candeias, host of the In Defense of Plants podcast and blog
Blogs
This blog post focuses on the day and a half we spent in San Luis Obispo County. The tree of that leg of our trip was clearly Quercus agrifolia from the champion Ancestor tree at the Halter...
Posted Sun, 2018-12-02 15:55 in Charles Snyers's blog
On a recent trip to Bogotá, Colombia I was able to collect acorns from several Quercus humboldtii growing as street trees.
Posted Thu, 2018-10-11 21:59 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Quercus suber is a Mediterranean oak, but some years ago I learned it had a curious history in North America.
Posted Thu, 2018-10-11 01:53 in David Taylor's blog
After moving it a month ago, we now have re-looked our website, making it fully responsive.
Posted Thu, 2018-09-27 13:20 in Charles Snyers's blog
We moved our website to A2 Hosting's data center in Michigan on Friday. The migration went very well.
Posted Tue, 2018-08-28 05:15 in Charles Snyers's blog
I have recently been asked to write or update the oak entries for Trees and Shrubs Online. This is a project to create a truly modern reference to temperate trees and shrubs. Currently there are...
Posted Mon, 2018-08-20 16:39 in Allen Coombes's blog
I enjoy finding giant trees, and always keep an eye open and a tape measure handy. Some of my finds are only giants in the sense that they are large for their species, such as my National...
Posted Thu, 2018-08-16 18:09 in Ryan Russell's blog
Abundant rain in southwest France in the early part of this year has fostered a bumper seed crop at Arboretum de la Bergerette, some (such as Quercus emoryi) already ripe: thus my thoughts turn...
Posted Thu, 2018-08-16 15:31 in Shaun Haddock's blog
I decided to develop a map which would allow the registration of all the oak trees in Israel.
Posted Tue, 2018-08-14 21:07 in Ezra Barnea's blog
It is written in the entry for Quercus chrysolepis at www.efloras.org that “Quercus chrysolepis is one of the most variable North American oaks.” If this comment relates primarily to the mature...
Posted Tue, 2018-08-14 20:20 in Dirk Giseburt's blog
Those coming to the IOS Conference in Davis, CA in October will see one of the best oak collections in the U.S. We invite you to include in your travel plans a visit to a different world, the...
Posted Fri, 2018-06-15 23:33 in Robert McCartney's blog
This year I harvested acorns in Grigadale Arboretum rather late in the season (April), at a stage when most species had dropped them. As trees are planted quite close together, in some cases I...
Posted Fri, 2018-06-15 16:07 in Roderick Cameron's blog
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