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 ...
A tree in the Scottish Highlands known as the Skipinnish Oak has been named UK Tree of the Year. Native woodland experts had no idea the tree existed until a gathering in 2009. It is thought to be ...
A Dutch tree enthusiast who travelled hundreds of miles to visit a famous oak tree in the Scottish Highlands will be reunited with the band that gave it its name – just as the Skipinnish Oak was ...
Oklahoma has a very unique forest alongside Interstate 35 in the vicinity of the OKC Zoo. That woodland has lots and lots of unusual oak trees growing therein; the trees of which I speak are saddled ...
A centuries-old Skipinnish Oak named after a Scottish band has won this year’s Tree of the Year contest. The oak, thought to be at least 400 years old and hidden away in a Sitka spruce ...
WOOD you be-LEAF it? A huge oak tree found in the Scottish Highlands has been voted Tree of the Year by the public. It is thought to be at least 400 years old, and was completely unknown to tree ...
He noted that different types of trees have variable flammability. Pine trees are perhaps the most flammable type of tree, as pine needles have high levels of flammable resins. Oak trees, he said, are ...