“The oak, when living, monarch of the wood. The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.” -Charles Churchill The English oak (Quercus robur) was so highly valued by the English that it was ...

A tree in the Scottish Highlands known as the Skipinnish Oak has been named UK Tree of the Year. Native woodland experts had no idea the tree existed until a gathering in 2009. It is thought to be ...

George Blanchard, whose family has farmed the land at Bowthorpe Park Farm since the 1940s, said the English oak had "always been part of family life". Woodland Trust The oak's hollow trunk also ...

In Britain we have two native species which look very similar. The pedunculate oak or English oak produces acorns which hang on a stalk or peduncle. The acorns of the sessile oak are stalkless.