WHO: Michael Eason, associate director of conservation and collections at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, and a nationwide team of tree experts. WHAT: A missing oak species—the Quercus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images There’s a reason it’s called the Mighty Oak: Oak trees are stately trees that can live for hundreds (yes, hundreds!) ...

LISLE, Ill. (Sept. 24, 2024)— Over a third of threatened or understudied oak tree species in Mesoamerica are not held in managed botanical collections anywhere in the world, and for many species, ...

On a sunny afternoon six weeks ago, a group of botanists who had spent years scouring Far West Texas for a long-lost oak species finally found their bounty. And this Thursday, they announced it to the ...

Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life by Andrew L. Hipp. Illustrated by Rachel D. Davis. University of Chicago Press, 2024 ($35) In many parts of the world, if you take a walk in ...

Oak trees around Minnesota have suffered from bouts of heavy precipitation and drought — conditions that make them more vulnerable to two-lined chestnut borer, a beetle that eats the inner bark of oak ...