umm, there is always one dick who will chop it down for tiktok fame,
I'd be happier if normies would never know anything about it
https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/
This list would keep them busy.
...last known living...
I mean they've only found 2-3 from what I've read on it.
So it is known to be the last of its species and nobody gathered some acorns from it?
Sort of relevant, but I have the only seedling of an endemic blue oak to the area I grew up in. It's the offspring of the last remaining blue oak in that region. Not the only blue oak left, but definitely the last one in the area for around 100 miles
That's neat. I guess for this tree they plan on using grafting for propagation hopefully one of the grafted trees is fertile. Not sure how that works with threes but I guess pot plants can change gender etc..
Oaks have both male and female flowers, and are able to self pollinate, albeit at a low rate (3.5%). My hope here for this Texas oak is that the grafts are successful since it's a risky process, and requires a healthy branch to be cut in order to produce a graft. This also leaves an open wound that could lead to infection by a pathogen, and oaks are susceptible to them. It might be adventitious to pollinate this species with a similar species oak, and back-cross it to the original to achieve an outcrossed hybrid. But, I do want them to keep some of the genetics pure and continue to pollinate itself.
sad, many such cases
Looks like it would make great firewood
Idk man there isn't a lot of material to work with. The trees pretty slim.
LOOK AT IT'S NAME
Q. tardifolia
This is proof of Q.
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