A trip to Tregrehan to study Fagacaea

Quercus lineata Quercus utilis from Vietnam. A really good tree. Quercus utilis Quercus utilis Quercus utilis Quercus utilis Quercus semiserrata. Quercus semiserrata Quercus semiserrata Lithocarpus henryi – Tom’s own collection…

4th May

…oak. Quercus floribunda Quercus floribunda Quercus floribunda Quercus libanerris – interesting bark. Quercus libanerris Quercus libanerris A mature Quercus trojana. The International Dendrology Society gave us a plant of this…

3rd May

…lamellosa Quercus lamellosa Quercus lamellosa Quercus lamellosa Quercus lamellosa Quercus oxyodon – a Nigel Holman collection. Quercus oxyodon Quercus oxyodon Quercus oxyodon I do not think I have ever properly…

30th July

…bit like Quercus x pseudoturneri. Planted in 1998 and a good 20 feet today. Quercus castaneifolia Quercus castaneifolia Quercus castaneifolia Quercus coccifera, the Kermes Oak, is really a bushy shrub…

26th July

Quercus GLABRA Quercus GLABRA Quercus GLAUCA Quercus GLAUCA Quercus GLAUCA The originas of Quercus acuta are very different. The old plant towards Tin Garden which was so cut back in…

22nd June

Quercus acutifolia). Quercus acutifolia Quercus acutifolia Quercus acutifolia Quercus acutifolia This we had as Quercus gregii (one of several young plants here but this one a gift from Penrice) but…

23rd April

…looking too evergreen. Nice bark. Quercus crassifolia Quercus crassifolia Quercus flocculenta – hardly like an oak at all. Quercus flocculenta Schefflera delavayi – not one so far in the Caerhays…

9th June

…growth on Quercus fleuryi. Young leaves have indumentum but older leaves do not. Quercus fleuryi Quercus fleuryi Quercus fleuryi Magnolia insignis full out and rather early I think. Magnolia insignis…

5th June

…Crinodendron Hedge as Quercus sessilifolia. Quercus sessilifolia Quercus sessilifolia Catkins on Quercus kiukiangensis. Quercus kiukiangensis A flower bud or two on Magnolia sapaensis. Magnolia sapaensis Rhododendron ‘Mrs J C Williams’…

6th May

…is now named Quercus kiukiangensis. We had thought it was very close to Nigel Holman’s collection of Quercus oxyodon (see earlier this week). Quercus kiukiangensis Quercus kiukiangensis Quercus kiukiangensis Quercus