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Gert Fortgens | Feb 15, 2024
Quercus marlipoensis acorns
A new study has analyzed the germination characteristics of...
Website Editor | Feb 15, 2024
Gall on Quercus grahamii
A new species of oak gall wasp has been named in honor of...
Website Editor | Feb 14, 2024

Plant Focus

For this Species Spotlight we train our follow spot on an oak that is quite a star of the quercine scene: Quercus hypoleucoides (stage name...

Roderick Cameron's blog

Update on the Quercus suber at Parque Anchorena (and Others)

The Anchorena Alcornoque revisited and a stand of century-old cork oaks in Montevideo, Uruguay.

IOS-member Teodoro Marañón has sent me links to a special issue of the Spanish journal "Ecosistemas" (Ecosystems) that he has co-edited.

Oaks on Ardnamurchan Peninsula, Scotland

Quercus on Ardnamurchan Peninsula, the most westerly point of mainland Britain.

Update on the Oak of Kvill

Maarten Windemuller has sent me some more photos of the Rumskulla Oak, including a couple from 1926 that give a good idea of the oak's decline in its latter years.They were published in the 1926-1927 yearbook of the Nature Conservation Society in Skåne (Naturskyddsföreningen i Skåne).

A New Map of New York's Central Park

A new map of New York's Central Park lists the location of 2,854 oaks.

Ice Storm Hits Aiken

Aiken, South Carolina, which some of us visited last November during the Oak Open Days there, was hit by a catastrophic ice storm Februay 12-13.

Quercus rysophylla Puts on a Show Way Down South

Quercus rysophylla with unusual fall color in Argentine arboretum.

Oak Open Days at Aiken, South Carolina, USA

On the first weekend of November 2013 a group of oak enthusiasts congregated in Aiken, SC.

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