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A reliable asexual propagation method for oaks is crucial for introducing superior hybrid oak selections into the nursery trade as named...
Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy was an Austrian botanist and eminent plant explorer. He died 150 years ago in Vienna on June 11, 1866.
The first IOS Oak Open Day event south of the Equator took place April 22-24, 2016, in Argentina.
Quercus ilicifolia is a little oak with a big name: bear oak. 
A review of the assemblage of the oaks known as the "vallonea oaks" or "aegilops oaks" from the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Following the 2015 IOS Conference, the Plant Collecting Collaborative traveled to the Southeastern United States on a seed collection...
The subject of the latest addition to our series on Historic Oaks may seem an odd choice, for all that remains of the tree is an ivy-...
In July 2015 a group of IOS members visited Gredington in north Wales and Ness Botanic Garden near Liverpool, England.
At the Gala Banquet held in the Gingko Restaurant of The Morton Arboretum on Tuesday, October 20, the International Oak Society presented...
Quercus crassifolia is tree ranging in height from 4 to 15 meters, and is usually easily recognized by its leaves: stiff and leathery,...
In January, 2015, The Morton Arboretum launched a project in collaboration with BGCI and the IUCN/SSC Global Tree Specialist Group, which...
The newly founded Oak Harbor Garry Oak Society in Oak Harbor, Washington is committed to the stewardship of Garry oak trees through...

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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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A reliable asexual propagation method for oaks is crucial for introducing superior hybrid oak selections into the nursery trade as named...
Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy was an Austrian botanist and eminent plant explorer. He died 150 years ago in Vienna on June 11, 1866.
The first IOS Oak Open Day event south of the Equator took place April 22-24, 2016, in Argentina.
Quercus ilicifolia is a little oak with a big name: bear oak. 
A review of the assemblage of the oaks known as the "vallonea oaks" or "aegilops oaks" from the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Following the 2015 IOS Conference, the Plant Collecting Collaborative traveled to the Southeastern United States on a seed collection...
The subject of the latest addition to our series on Historic Oaks may seem an odd choice, for all that remains of the tree is an ivy-...
In July 2015 a group of IOS members visited Gredington in north Wales and Ness Botanic Garden near Liverpool, England.
At the Gala Banquet held in the Gingko Restaurant of The Morton Arboretum on Tuesday, October 20, the International Oak Society presented...
Quercus crassifolia is tree ranging in height from 4 to 15 meters, and is usually easily recognized by its leaves: stiff and leathery,...
In January, 2015, The Morton Arboretum launched a project in collaboration with BGCI and the IUCN/SSC Global Tree Specialist Group, which...
The newly founded Oak Harbor Garry Oak Society in Oak Harbor, Washington is committed to the stewardship of Garry oak trees through...

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