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Who was Quercus grahamii named in honor of?
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Posted Tue, 2024-12-17 20:04 in Roderick Cameron's blog
An Ansel Adams photograph is featured on a postage stamp.
Stamp with Ansel Adams' Oak Tree, Sunset City
Posted Fri, 2024-12-13 15:59 in Roderick Cameron's blog
A beautiful and sonorous name has sunk into synonymy.
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Posted Thu, 2024-10-31 00:50 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Santiago Reyna has selected a bushy holm oak with attractive maroon-burgundy leaves.
Burgundy leaves on Q. rotundifolia
Posted Fri, 2024-06-28 13:07 in Roderick Cameron's blog
We all know the best you can do with an acorn (turn it into an oak), but what can we do with a cupule? One answer is: whistle! It is a good skill to learn.
Acorn cap whistler in Extremadura
Posted Wed, 2024-04-17 21:33 in Roderick Cameron's blog
A new stamp issued by the United States Post Office in August 2023 depicts an oak, though not in a form that most quercophiles would recognize.
Oak featured on a new US stamp
Posted Sun, 2023-12-10 13:33 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Shakespeare mentions oaks more than any other tree.
Falstaff at Hern's Oak
Posted Sun, 2023-04-23 15:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Tim Boland brought to our attention an interesting discussion of dispersal of acorns by Blue Jays (
Blue Jays and Oaks by Jay Wright
Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 13:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
An encounter in Taiwan with a genus in Fagaceae I had never heard of.
castnopsis_uraiana_inat2.jpeg
Posted Sat, 2023-04-15 11:44 in Roderick Cameron's blog
A proposal to conserve the name for Hungarian oak
Quercus frainetto
Posted Mon, 2023-02-13 16:11 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Many oaks have been planted as memorial trees near the Capitol
Quercus marilandica and the Capitol
Posted Wed, 2022-12-14 17:27 in Roderick Cameron's blog
It turns out quite a number of countries have issued stamps featuring oaks...
stamp_collage.jpg
Posted Sat, 2022-06-11 19:17 in Roderick Cameron's blog

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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

Roderick Cameron's blog

Who was Quercus grahamii named in honor of?
q._grahamii_beatrice.jpg
Posted Tue, 2024-12-17 20:04 in Roderick Cameron's blog
An Ansel Adams photograph is featured on a postage stamp.
Stamp with Ansel Adams' Oak Tree, Sunset City
Posted Fri, 2024-12-13 15:59 in Roderick Cameron's blog
A beautiful and sonorous name has sunk into synonymy.
20240927_115114.jpg
Posted Thu, 2024-10-31 00:50 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Santiago Reyna has selected a bushy holm oak with attractive maroon-burgundy leaves.
Burgundy leaves on Q. rotundifolia
Posted Fri, 2024-06-28 13:07 in Roderick Cameron's blog
We all know the best you can do with an acorn (turn it into an oak), but what can we do with a cupule? One answer is: whistle! It is a good skill to learn.
Acorn cap whistler in Extremadura
Posted Wed, 2024-04-17 21:33 in Roderick Cameron's blog
A new stamp issued by the United States Post Office in August 2023 depicts an oak, though not in a form that most quercophiles would recognize.
Oak featured on a new US stamp
Posted Sun, 2023-12-10 13:33 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Shakespeare mentions oaks more than any other tree.
Falstaff at Hern's Oak
Posted Sun, 2023-04-23 15:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Tim Boland brought to our attention an interesting discussion of dispersal of acorns by Blue Jays (
Blue Jays and Oaks by Jay Wright
Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 13:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
An encounter in Taiwan with a genus in Fagaceae I had never heard of.
castnopsis_uraiana_inat2.jpeg
Posted Sat, 2023-04-15 11:44 in Roderick Cameron's blog
A proposal to conserve the name for Hungarian oak
Quercus frainetto
Posted Mon, 2023-02-13 16:11 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Many oaks have been planted as memorial trees near the Capitol
Quercus marilandica and the Capitol
Posted Wed, 2022-12-14 17:27 in Roderick Cameron's blog
It turns out quite a number of countries have issued stamps featuring oaks...
stamp_collage.jpg
Posted Sat, 2022-06-11 19:17 in Roderick Cameron's blog

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