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A.G.B. Fairchild with Quercus skinneri acorns
David Fairchild's 1944 Expedition to Mesoamerica: Encounters with Quercus skinneri
The famous agricultural explorer was fascinated by the...
Website Editor | Apr 23, 2023
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A Fagaceae Species That Has Flummoxed Taxonomists
An encounter in Taiwan with a genus in Fagaceae I had never...
Roderick Cameron | Apr 15, 2023
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Climate Change Will Severely Impact the Evergreen Oaks in East Asian Evergreen Broadleaved Forests
New study seeks to understand impact of climate change on...
Min Deng | Apr 06, 2023

Plant Focus

Quercus xjackiana acorns
Hybrid Highlight: Quercus ×jackiana C.K. Schneid.
The hybrid of Q. alba and Q. bicolor
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Patrick Vereecke's blog

Frère Sennen's Names

By Patrick Vereecke | February 13, 2022
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The author Sennen crops up regularly among the Spanish oaks. He described a number of species from Spain and had an eye for hybrids, a trait that can also be seen in work he did in other genera.

Quercus obtecta's hidden epithet uncovered

By Patrick Vereecke | March 26, 2021
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Until recently, the name had been considered unplaced

Quercus warkoensir??

By Patrick Vereecke | February 9, 2021
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A strange oak name explained

The Diversity of the Epithet “dshorochensis”

By Patrick Vereecke | February 6, 2021
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An unusual name based on a river in Turkey has quite a few variants

Does Quercus cerris Grow In Spain?

By Patrick Vereecke | December 2, 2020
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Linnaeus wrote in his prologue of Quercus cerris that it "lives in Spain," but the species does not occur naturally there...

Mysterious Hansen Name Unveiled

By Patrick Vereecke | February 14, 2016

In some oak databases one can find a few oak names described by a certain Hansen. And in every instance there is no link to a publication whatsoever...