
SDBG playing key role in global conservation of oak trees
June 2022
by Tony Gurnoe, Director of Conservation Horticulture
SDBG’s Conservation Horticulture staff have been working to conserve endangered native oak species, both in habitat and in cultivation, since the beginning of the Garden’s Science and Conservation department. Notable examples of the impact SDBG has had on regionally native endangered species of Quercus include cultivating the first ex situ conservation accessions of Cedros Island oaks (Quercus cedrosensis) from acorns collected within the small and highly threatened U.S. population of that species. […]