Professor Gray was, of course, referring to what we have as this week’s Mystery Plant, the post oak, Quercus stellata.I’m pretty confident that all you botanists out there will recognize this ...

Answer: This is a post oak (Quercus stellata). They are notoriously temperamental about environmental conditions, whether climatic or by things done by humans. Drought, ...

Dear Neil: This is the largest of 10 oaks trees on our property. It’s the only one with such a high percentage of its leaves turning brown. What is your ...

Dear Neil: This is the largest of 10 oaks trees on our property. It’s the only one with such a high percentage of its leaves turning brown. What is your ...

A healthy leaf of the post oak (Quercus stellata) (Texas Agricultural Experiment Station) The yellow leaves of some post oak trees are not a sign of autumn. Instead, lamentably, they signal the ...

A: This is a post oak (Quercus stellata). They are notoriously temperamental about environmental conditions, whether climatic or by things done by humans. Drought, as we experienced last year and ...

With male and female flowers on the same tree, post oak is monoecious. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette) A The plant you have is a post oak — Quercus stellata, a very common oak species in Arkansas.

The Chattanooga Post Oak, although its score is less at 270 points, is remarkable in that it is much taller than the Madison County Tennessee Champion tree (112 vs. 76 feet); almost half again as ...