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White oak (Quercus alba) flowering at Starhill Forest in late April.
A very corky bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) sapling in Porter County, Indiana.
The bright spring foliage of a rare oak in our collection — Quercus organensis from the Organ Mountains of New Mexico.
Quercus insignis, the largest acorn in the world, in southern Vera Cruz, Mexico
 Spring foliage of a grafted tree of Quercus velutina 'OakRidge Walker', our cutleaf black oak selection from Sangamon County, Illinois, now being propagated in Europe. Old white oaks in fall, along the bluff of Rock Creek at Starhill Forest, our arboretum. The Missouri co-champion bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) in Mississippi County, 140 feet tall.
This Quercus dolicholepis, grown from seed we collected along the border of China and Viet Nam, is one of more than 100 containerized tropical and subtropical oaks we maintain in our living collection at Starhill Forest.
Staminate flowers on Quercus pumila, the shrubby runner oak from the Deep South, surviving in a sand mound planting at Starhill Forest in Illinois. (Zone 5!)
 Fall foliage of Quercus xsternbergii.
The Abbot Schauble Oak on the grounds of St. Joseph Abbey, founded by the Benedictine monks over a century ago near New Orleans — this is one of many fine live oaks (Quercus virginiana) in the Deep South.
Our research plot of Quercus macrocarpa, with deer protection. The Vagabond, a splendid old water oak (Quercus nigra) in a secluded setting in Montz, Louisiana, behind the childhood home of Coleen Perilloux Landry, chairman of the Live Oak Society.
 
The Gudgel Oak
The Gudgel Oak
is an historic white oak (Quercus alba) growing a few miles from Starhill Forest Arboretum. Dating to 1759 (the middle of the French and Indian War), it overhangs Gudgel Road, near Athens, Illinois.

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E-mail your hosts GUY and EDIE STERNBERG
Guy Sternberg is a landscape architect, arborist, tree consultant, writer, lecturer, and photographer from Illinois.
He has propagated and grown hundreds of species of trees, both native and non-native, and maintains his own research
arboretum, Starhill Forest, with his wife, Edie. He was the first president of the International Oak Society and is a
life member of the International Dendrology Society, International Society of Arboriculture, and American Forests.

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