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Group photo at The Savill Garden
UK Oak Open Days: June 15–17, 2024
Three-day event included visits to two parks in Berkshire...
Roderick Cameron | Aug 18, 2024
Rebekah Mohn presenting at IBC 2024
Oak-related Presentations and Posters at IBC 2024 in Madrid
Several abstracts included research involving Quercus.
Website Editor | Aug 13, 2024
Participants at the Oak Study Day in Arboretum des Pouyouleix
French Oak Open Days: 8–12 June, 2024
This five-day event included visits to four oak collections...
Website Editor | Aug 12, 2024

Plant Focus

Quercus dumosa acorn
Species Spotlight: Quercus dumosa Nutt.
Animals, plants, and fungi depend on this humble tree, but its future—and theirs—is all but certain.
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Quercus robur

Quercus What? The Oak on the UK’s New 5p Coin

By Steve Potter | August 21, 2024
New 5p coin - Image: The Royal Mint

The oak depicted on the new coin is a challenge to identify.

(Even More) Northernmost Oaks!

By DW Oliver | June 28, 2024
David Oliver and the northernmost oak (to date)

Oaks found close to the 70th parallel north

The World’s Northernmost Oak?

By Website Editor | August 14, 2023
The oak tree in Skjomendalen © Gerhard Sørensen-Fuglem and Cecilia Piccirilli Bjerkeset

An oak grows north of the Arctic Circle in Norway

The Royal Oaks of Penrice Castle, Wales

By Steve Potter | August 6, 2023
Miss Emily Talbot helps plant an oak (number 1 or 2, Quercus ×rosacea aff. robur), 1904; image courtesy Thomas Methuen-Campbell

What species of oak were planted by Royals at Penrice?

The Kaive Oak

By Website Editor | June 14, 2022
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In a meadow in the parish of Sēme, municipality of Tukums, Latvia, some 500 m from Kaive Manor, stands the Kaive Oak.