So said the eminent Harvard botanist Asa Gray, on page 451 in his encyclopedic “Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology,” a book published in 1872. I got my copy at an old bookstore several years ...

Maybe we should have had the Turkey oak, Quercus laevis, back at Thanksgiving: some people think that the leaves of this little tree resemble a turkey’s foot, which for me would require a good bit of ...

The cells that make up the walls of the finest of all lymphatic vessels have a lobate, oak leaf-like shape that makes them particularly resilient to changes in fluid volume. A similar cell shape also ...

A new study published in Forest Ecosystems has found that two evergreen oak species in the Himalayan-Hengduan Mountains region adapt to their environments in very different ways by changing how their ...