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White oak (Quercus alba) flowering at Starhill Forest in late April.

The impressive thing about this tree is its acorns — Quercus insignis near Huatusco, Vera Cruz, Mexico.
 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.
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.
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.
Our research plot of Quercus macrocarpa, with deer protection.
Old white oaks in fall, along the bluff of Rock Creek at Starhill Forest, our arboretum.
 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 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.
 The Missouri co-champion bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) in Mississippi County, 140 feet tall.
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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The Gudgel Oak
 

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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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