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Silent Auction in Oaxaca
Posted Fri, 2025-10-31 13:31 in Ryan Russell's blog
Support the IOS by donating items for the Silent Auction
Silent auction at Las Cruces
Posted Fri, 2025-08-22 13:57 in Ryan Russell's blog
At the 2012 IOS Conference at The Morton Arboretum, our first IOS silent auction was held.
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Posted Sun, 2022-04-17 00:56 in Ryan Russell's blog
I enjoy finding giant trees, and always keep an eye open and a tape measure handy. Some of my finds are only giants in the sense that they are large for their species, such as my National...
Posted Thu, 2018-08-16 18:09 in Ryan Russell's blog
Following a very mild South Carolina winter, many species of plants had begun to break dormancy by mid-March, nearly a month ahead of schedule, setting the table for a potentially disastrous...
Posted Mon, 2017-08-21 19:14 in Ryan Russell's blog
Late September in Missouri is typically the start of acorn season, the most important time of the year for a quercophile. My good friend, Alan Branhagen, Director of Horticulture for Powell...
Posted Sun, 2015-11-22 11:34 in Ryan Russell's blog
The urban forest provides municipalities, homeowners, business owners, and visitors with many wonderful benefits, but it can also present unique problems. Urban trees may reach proportions...
Posted Sun, 2015-05-31 15:10 in Ryan Russell's blog
The upcoming IOS Conference for the first time will feature a silent auction. The proceeds will fund scholarships for students wishing to attend the 2018 Conference.
Posted Sat, 2015-05-30 16:41 in Ryan Russell's blog
This tree had not been pruned for many years, if at all and as a result it had grown competing leaders. These co-dominant stems were already becoming an issue and if left unchecked, would become...
Posted Thu, 2015-01-15 00:50 in Ryan Russell's blog
While it is very well known that oaks hybridize, can you call every oak you may find with atypical leaves, bark, or acorns a hybrid? 
Posted Fri, 2014-12-19 18:03 in Ryan Russell's blog
Quercus ×egglestonii in Fairview Park in Columbia, Missouri.
Posted Sun, 2014-11-23 03:46 in Ryan Russell's blog
The Mississippi Oak Open Days was a great experience represented by attendees from eight states.
Posted Fri, 2014-07-04 15:02 in Ryan Russell's blog

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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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Over U$S 2,000 raised for student scholarships
Silent Auction in Oaxaca
Posted Fri, 2025-10-31 13:31 in Ryan Russell's blog
Support the IOS by donating items for the Silent Auction
Silent auction at Las Cruces
Posted Fri, 2025-08-22 13:57 in Ryan Russell's blog
At the 2012 IOS Conference at The Morton Arboretum, our first IOS silent auction was held.
ios_logo_square_for_website_25.jpg
Posted Sun, 2022-04-17 00:56 in Ryan Russell's blog
I enjoy finding giant trees, and always keep an eye open and a tape measure handy. Some of my finds are only giants in the sense that they are large for their species, such as my National...
Posted Thu, 2018-08-16 18:09 in Ryan Russell's blog
Following a very mild South Carolina winter, many species of plants had begun to break dormancy by mid-March, nearly a month ahead of schedule, setting the table for a potentially disastrous...
Posted Mon, 2017-08-21 19:14 in Ryan Russell's blog
Late September in Missouri is typically the start of acorn season, the most important time of the year for a quercophile. My good friend, Alan Branhagen, Director of Horticulture for Powell...
Posted Sun, 2015-11-22 11:34 in Ryan Russell's blog
The urban forest provides municipalities, homeowners, business owners, and visitors with many wonderful benefits, but it can also present unique problems. Urban trees may reach proportions...
Posted Sun, 2015-05-31 15:10 in Ryan Russell's blog
The upcoming IOS Conference for the first time will feature a silent auction. The proceeds will fund scholarships for students wishing to attend the 2018 Conference.
Posted Sat, 2015-05-30 16:41 in Ryan Russell's blog
This tree had not been pruned for many years, if at all and as a result it had grown competing leaders. These co-dominant stems were already becoming an issue and if left unchecked, would become...
Posted Thu, 2015-01-15 00:50 in Ryan Russell's blog
While it is very well known that oaks hybridize, can you call every oak you may find with atypical leaves, bark, or acorns a hybrid? 
Posted Fri, 2014-12-19 18:03 in Ryan Russell's blog
Quercus ×egglestonii in Fairview Park in Columbia, Missouri.
Posted Sun, 2014-11-23 03:46 in Ryan Russell's blog
The Mississippi Oak Open Days was a great experience represented by attendees from eight states.
Posted Fri, 2014-07-04 15:02 in Ryan Russell's blog

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