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The 2015 IOS Pre-Conference Tour highlighted an amazing diversity of trees and biomes across southern and central Illinois. 
Posted Tue, 2015-12-01 13:09 in Warren Chatwin's blog
Tomorrow, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change COP21 opens in Paris.  A couple of days ago, I came across an essay published by Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom, that I found quite...
Posted Sun, 2015-11-29 11:05 in Charles Snyers d'Attenhoven's blog
Last year, Sylvia and I went on a three-day holiday to visit some friends who own a camping site near the city of Bitburg (where the famous beer Bitburger comes from) in Germany, a three-hour...
Posted Mon, 2015-11-23 21:18 in Jeroen Braakman'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 BBC's Oak Tree: Nature's Greatest Survivor documents a year-long study in which entomologist George McGavin investigates the sophisticated biology of one of the great icons of the British...
Posted Mon, 2015-09-28 23:13 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Interesting article on the website of Nature, the science weekly magazine, referring to a study they published.  The number of trees on the planet is estimated to be 3 trillion. 
Posted Thu, 2015-09-24 07:32 in Charles Snyers d'Attenhoven's blog
Prof. Emeritus Jack Maze (UBC) recently sent me some of his poems, with photos of oaks, taken by nature photographer Dan Brooks during a trip through the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Posted Mon, 2015-09-07 21:58 in Allan Taylor's blog
Six years after Hurricane Klaus, disaster strikes again.
Posted Mon, 2015-09-07 20:54 in Shaun Haddock's blog
Rob McBride shares some of his stories about oaks.
Posted Mon, 2015-09-07 11:57 in Website Editor's blog
The unexpected consequence of cutting down young oaks in the arboretum.
Posted Sat, 2015-09-05 20:00 in Roderick Cameron's blog
World Tree Story, a new book by Julian Hight, featuring notable trees from around the world, including many oaks, is availlable for advance purchase.
Posted Mon, 2015-06-01 16:52 in Roderick Cameron'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

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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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The 2015 IOS Pre-Conference Tour highlighted an amazing diversity of trees and biomes across southern and central Illinois. 
Posted Tue, 2015-12-01 13:09 in Warren Chatwin's blog
Tomorrow, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change COP21 opens in Paris.  A couple of days ago, I came across an essay published by Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom, that I found quite...
Posted Sun, 2015-11-29 11:05 in Charles Snyers d'Attenhoven's blog
Last year, Sylvia and I went on a three-day holiday to visit some friends who own a camping site near the city of Bitburg (where the famous beer Bitburger comes from) in Germany, a three-hour...
Posted Mon, 2015-11-23 21:18 in Jeroen Braakman'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 BBC's Oak Tree: Nature's Greatest Survivor documents a year-long study in which entomologist George McGavin investigates the sophisticated biology of one of the great icons of the British...
Posted Mon, 2015-09-28 23:13 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Interesting article on the website of Nature, the science weekly magazine, referring to a study they published.  The number of trees on the planet is estimated to be 3 trillion. 
Posted Thu, 2015-09-24 07:32 in Charles Snyers d'Attenhoven's blog
Prof. Emeritus Jack Maze (UBC) recently sent me some of his poems, with photos of oaks, taken by nature photographer Dan Brooks during a trip through the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Posted Mon, 2015-09-07 21:58 in Allan Taylor's blog
Six years after Hurricane Klaus, disaster strikes again.
Posted Mon, 2015-09-07 20:54 in Shaun Haddock's blog
Rob McBride shares some of his stories about oaks.
Posted Mon, 2015-09-07 11:57 in Website Editor's blog
The unexpected consequence of cutting down young oaks in the arboretum.
Posted Sat, 2015-09-05 20:00 in Roderick Cameron's blog
World Tree Story, a new book by Julian Hight, featuring notable trees from around the world, including many oaks, is availlable for advance purchase.
Posted Mon, 2015-06-01 16:52 in Roderick Cameron'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

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