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In the Trompenburg Arboretum archive, where we keep our letters, I recently found a letter from Heino Heine dating back to 1973. Attached to it was a postcard and herbarium specimens of Quercus...
Posted Tue, 2017-03-21 16:10 in Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog
A hybrid selected at Trompenburg Arboretum has parents that are oceans apart, yet closely related.
Posted Fri, 2016-04-01 18:23 in Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog
The IOS has been invited to view the collections of two of our members in Ireland: that of Sir Brendan Parsons, the Earl of Rosse, at Birr Castle; and that of Johnny Couchman, near Carlow. There...
Posted Thu, 2016-03-31 14:38 in Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog
Peter Young's book Oak and an anecdote about South African oaks.
Posted Sat, 2015-05-23 20:14 in Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog
Very unexpectedly, in her home in Klein Zundert, The Netherlands, Jo Bömer passed away on March 4th 2015.
Posted Thu, 2015-03-12 21:55 in Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog
A brief trip to Taiwan viewing Fagaceae.
Posted Tue, 2014-12-02 11:45 in Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog

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

Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog

In the Trompenburg Arboretum archive, where we keep our letters, I recently found a letter from Heino Heine dating back to 1973. Attached to it was a postcard and herbarium specimens of Quercus...
Posted Tue, 2017-03-21 16:10 in Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog
A hybrid selected at Trompenburg Arboretum has parents that are oceans apart, yet closely related.
Posted Fri, 2016-04-01 18:23 in Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog
The IOS has been invited to view the collections of two of our members in Ireland: that of Sir Brendan Parsons, the Earl of Rosse, at Birr Castle; and that of Johnny Couchman, near Carlow. There...
Posted Thu, 2016-03-31 14:38 in Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog
Peter Young's book Oak and an anecdote about South African oaks.
Posted Sat, 2015-05-23 20:14 in Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog
Very unexpectedly, in her home in Klein Zundert, The Netherlands, Jo Bömer passed away on March 4th 2015.
Posted Thu, 2015-03-12 21:55 in Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog
A brief trip to Taiwan viewing Fagaceae.
Posted Tue, 2014-12-02 11:45 in Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum's blog

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