Discover the history, secrets, and beauty of the English Oak, a tree that has shaped landscapes and legends for centuries.

“The oak, when living, monarch of the wood. The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.” -Charles Churchill The English oak (Quercus robur) was so highly valued by the English that it was ...

ideastream: John Grabowski, the Krieger Mueller Associate Professor of Applied History, provided his expertise in a story about a historic English oak tree being replanted at Rockefeller Pond in ...

Quercus, commonly known as the oak tree, was named the national tree of the United States in 2004. The oak is also the national tree of Germany, Serbia, Cyprus, England, Estonia, France, Moldova, ...

“Sing for the Oak Tree, the Monarch of the Wood.” These words were written by English poet Mary Botham Howitt, who died in 1888. She may be best known for her amusing creation, “The Spider and the Fly ...

It may seem like winter will last forever, but it won’t. If you have an oak that needs pruning, that gives you a deadline. To protect them from oak wilt, a serious fungal disease, “oaks should only be ...

A new study shows that tiny microbes living in and around oak trees may help them survive drought, poor soil, and disease.