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Quercus douglasii is an endemic California oak tree, affectionately called “the blue oak”.
The Huntington, in San Marino, CA, obtained a grant from American Public Gardens Association to study Quercus ajoensis and Q. toumeyi in...
The Silent Auction held at the IOS Conference in Davis, CA was another great success. The total amount raised surpassed USD 2,600 and an...
As is tradition every Triennial Conference, IOS Service Awards were presented at the 2018 Conference Gala Dinner, held on this occasion at...
The 9th International Oak Society Conference held at UC Davis last October was probably the most ambitious IOS Conference to date—and it...
Highlights of this tour included: University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, Long Ridge Open Space, Stanford oak woodland, and...
On Sunday, October 21, prior to the evening Opening Reception that kicked off the Conference, participants could choose one of three Day...
The second leg of the Post-Conference Tour: from Santa Cruz to Los Angeles
Forty enthusiastic IOS members ventured from UC Davis through Sonoma wine country toward the north California coast. We visited sites of...
Forty-one participants from nine countries gathered at Davis, California on October 15 for a four-day trek across the Sierra Nevada and...
Doug McCreary, long-time member of the IOS, died earlier this year.
Quercus acutissima Carruth. is a species whose natural distribution covers a vast territory in East and Southeast Asia, from central Nepal...

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Editor's Picks

Past IOS President Allen Coombes, Curator of Scientific Collections at Puebla University Botanic Garden, discusses leaf variability in Quercus ceirpes (still image from the documentary)
A new documentary by Maricela Rodríguez Acosta
Website Editor | Feb 17, 2026
Quercus miyagii acorn and dried leaves
A rare oak endemic to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan
Elion Jam | Feb 16, 2026
A moss-covered oak (Quercus orocantabrica) in Mata de Albergaria, Peneda-Gerês National Park, Portugal  © Amit Zoran
Steve Potter reviews a new book that features oaks
Steve Potter | Feb 11, 2026

Plant Focus

Quercus canariensis in Cornwall Park, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand, the champion specimen in New Zealand, planted in the 1920s, 27.2 m tall with a trunk diameter of 209 cm (G. Collett pers. comm. 2026)  © Gerald Collett
Antonio Lambe shares his views on this threatened oak native to Iberia and North Africa

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Quercus douglasii is an endemic California oak tree, affectionately called “the blue oak”.
The Huntington, in San Marino, CA, obtained a grant from American Public Gardens Association to study Quercus ajoensis and Q. toumeyi in...
The Silent Auction held at the IOS Conference in Davis, CA was another great success. The total amount raised surpassed USD 2,600 and an...
As is tradition every Triennial Conference, IOS Service Awards were presented at the 2018 Conference Gala Dinner, held on this occasion at...
The 9th International Oak Society Conference held at UC Davis last October was probably the most ambitious IOS Conference to date—and it...
Highlights of this tour included: University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, Long Ridge Open Space, Stanford oak woodland, and...
On Sunday, October 21, prior to the evening Opening Reception that kicked off the Conference, participants could choose one of three Day...
The second leg of the Post-Conference Tour: from Santa Cruz to Los Angeles
Forty enthusiastic IOS members ventured from UC Davis through Sonoma wine country toward the north California coast. We visited sites of...
Forty-one participants from nine countries gathered at Davis, California on October 15 for a four-day trek across the Sierra Nevada and...
Doug McCreary, long-time member of the IOS, died earlier this year.
Quercus acutissima Carruth. is a species whose natural distribution covers a vast territory in East and Southeast Asia, from central Nepal...

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