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Happy Mystery Monday! Can you guess what is pictured in the photo below? The answer to last week’s mystery is white oak, Quercus alba, pictured in the photo below. White oak is a very commonly found ...

During a recent Arbor Day event, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein announced that the 2025 N.C. Tree of the Year is the white oak, Quercus alba. White oak is a great choice for a number of reasons.

One of Maryland’s oldest citizens may just be a roadside tree in Ruxton— a majestic white oak (Quercus alba) — that has stood sentinel ... as his funeral train was conveying him back to Springfield, ...

Douglas Tallamy, an entomologist, ecologist, and conservationist, reveals in his seminal book “Nature’s Best Hope” that the white oak Quercus alba has been his favorite tree since adolescence.

while white oak trees are native to North America. White oaks are classified as the species Quercus alba, for a direct translation from Latin of “white oak.” White oak is both the name of the species ...

The answer to last week’s mystery is white oak, Quercus alba, pictured below: White oak trees are native to the eastern United States and are usually found in forested areas of dry slopes, valleys, ...

Scientists have produced the first chromosome-scale genome assembly of the white oak (Quercus alba), an abundant forest tree species across eastern North America that is ecologically, culturally, and ...