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A visit to two Belgian collections on a rainy September day, Arboretum Wespelaar and the National Botanical Garden of Belgium. 
An oak in cultivation as Quercus eugeniifolia has now been described as a new species,  Quercus delgadoana S. Valencia, Nixon & L. M....
The Arboretum des Grandes Bruyères is without doubt one of the most extraordinary private botanic gardens in France.
This trip report from Béatrice Chassé through Northern Mexico is reproduced from the IOS Journal.  The companion photo gallery contains...
A visit to the collections of Daniel Dumont, an Oak Open Day in Belgium.
A previously unreported station for Quercus sinuata var. breviloba has recently been identified in southwestern Custer County, Oklahoma. 
Shaun Haddock invited the IOS membership on July 19, 2010 to an Oak Open Day at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, near London. The aim was to...
The distribution of Palmer's oak (Quercus palmeri Engelm.) includes numerous isolated populations that are presumably relicts of a formerly...
In 2008 one red oak hybrid (Quercus rubra × ellipsoidalis) was diagnosed with oak wilt disease (Ceratocystis fagacearum) at Starhill Forest...
Many common native trees are just as beautiful as cultivated exotics. Since they have evolved with local conditions and are well adapted to...
 
This article covers the 2007 IOS tour to Japan.  It was initially published in the IOS Journal.  

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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 visit to two Belgian collections on a rainy September day, Arboretum Wespelaar and the National Botanical Garden of Belgium. 
An oak in cultivation as Quercus eugeniifolia has now been described as a new species,  Quercus delgadoana S. Valencia, Nixon & L. M....
The Arboretum des Grandes Bruyères is without doubt one of the most extraordinary private botanic gardens in France.
This trip report from Béatrice Chassé through Northern Mexico is reproduced from the IOS Journal.  The companion photo gallery contains...
A visit to the collections of Daniel Dumont, an Oak Open Day in Belgium.
A previously unreported station for Quercus sinuata var. breviloba has recently been identified in southwestern Custer County, Oklahoma. 
Shaun Haddock invited the IOS membership on July 19, 2010 to an Oak Open Day at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, near London. The aim was to...
The distribution of Palmer's oak (Quercus palmeri Engelm.) includes numerous isolated populations that are presumably relicts of a formerly...
In 2008 one red oak hybrid (Quercus rubra × ellipsoidalis) was diagnosed with oak wilt disease (Ceratocystis fagacearum) at Starhill Forest...
Many common native trees are just as beautiful as cultivated exotics. Since they have evolved with local conditions and are well adapted to...
 
This article covers the 2007 IOS tour to Japan.  It was initially published in the IOS Journal.  

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