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Feb 10, 2020
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Feb 10, 2020
Plant Focus
Quercus tarokoensis (local name 太鲁阁栎 tai lu ge li, "oak of Taroko") is a fairly unknown oak species, restricted to eastern Taiwan.
Blogs
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
I conducted studies under the supervision of Dr. Ranbeer S. Rawal in the laboratory and an experimental nursery to understand seed germination behavior in relation to desiccation for different...
Posted Tue, 2018-06-12 18:56 in Meenakshi Negi's blog
Last April I briefly visited Canberra, the capital of Australia. I was able to take a day off to look at trees and spent most of it admiring the impressive collections of Australian native flora...
Posted Tue, 2018-06-12 14:40 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Bees are thieves! It’s official! After my recent note pointing out that bees were seemingly harvesting pollen from a Quercus suber without any commensurate benefit to the tree, serendipitously...
Posted Fri, 2018-04-20 20:33 in Shaun Haddock's blog
Over the first hundred days of 2018 I have read Dante’s Divine Comedy, as part of a mass-reading organized on Twitter by Pablo Maurette, an Argentine Literature Professor and author at the...
Posted Thu, 2018-04-19 18:46 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Allan Taylor sent me a link to an article describing efforts to bring back the oaks to Silicon Valley.
Posted Thu, 2018-04-19 12:45 in Roderick Cameron's blog
This year I have received an unprecedented demand for oaks. This is exhilarating and exciting. One client bought 15 Quercus lobata. Another took about 50 oaks to Ireland. Another from Italy...
Posted Thu, 2018-04-19 11:25 in James Harris's blog
An oak which breaks the rules... Do oaks have rules? Well, I think so: the rule of survival of the fittest implies that all unnecessary branch structure is unaffordably costly in resources – the...
Posted Fri, 2018-02-16 19:46 in Shaun Haddock's blog
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