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Group photo at The Savill Garden
UK Oak Open Days: June 15–17, 2024
Three-day event included visits to two parks in Berkshire...
Roderick Cameron | Aug 18, 2024
Rebekah Mohn presenting at IBC 2024
Oak-related Presentations and Posters at IBC 2024 in Madrid
Several abstracts included research involving Quercus.
Website Editor | Aug 13, 2024
Participants at the Oak Study Day in Arboretum des Pouyouleix
French Oak Open Days: 8–12 June, 2024
This five-day event included visits to four oak collections...
Website Editor | Aug 12, 2024

Plant Focus

Quercus dumosa acorn
Species Spotlight: Quercus dumosa Nutt.
Animals, plants, and fungi depend on this humble tree, but its future—and theirs—is all but certain.
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Plant Focus

Species Spotlight: Quercus dumosa Nutt.

By Joseph Ree | August 8, 2024
Quercus dumosa acorn

Animals, plants, and fungi depend on this humble tree, but its future—and theirs—is all but certain.

Species Spotlight: Quercus peninsularis Trel.

By Roderick Cameron | June 27, 2024
Quercus peninsularis

A Red Oak (Section Lobatae) endemic to inland ranges of northern Baja California, Mexico

Species Spotlight: Quercus crassipes Bonpl.

By Roderick Cameron | April 22, 2024
Quercus crassipes acorns with inrolled cupule margin

One of the more well-known Mexican oaks in cultivation.

Species Spotlight: Quercus boyntonii

By Website Editor | August 11, 2023
A small but mature Alabama sandstone oak producing acorns © Patrick Thompson

A Critically Endangered dwarf oak 

Hybrid Highlight: Quercus ×jackiana C.K. Schneid.

By Ryan Russell | February 9, 2023
Quercus xjackiana acorns

The hybrid of Q. alba and Q. bicolor

Species Spotlight: Quercus macdougallii Martínez

By Nelly Pacheco Cruz | November 30, 2022
Quercus macdougallii

A rare oak endemic to the Sierra Juárez in Oaxaca

A New Species of Oak from Vietnam

By Roderick Cameron | October 19, 2022
Quercus sontraensis

Quercus sontraensis grows in the Son Tra Peninsula

Species Spotlight: Quercus tonduzii Seemen

By Francisco Garin Garcia | August 21, 2022
Quercus tonduzii with acorn

An oak found only on a volcano in Costa Rica

Species Spotlight: Quercus mohriana Buckley ex Rydb.

By Adam Black | April 16, 2022
Quercus mohriana

A shrub oak from the U.S. Southwest

Hybrid Highlight: the Langtry Oak

By Thierry Lamant | April 13, 2022
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A section Lobatae oak found in southern Texas may be a distinct, undescribed species.

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