My research associate Kay-El climbs the Ardeth Wood memorial Bebb's oak at the Dominion Arboretum, August 2015. We collected (and then planted) roughly 1,000 acorns and other tree seeds from that visit. Hey, it was either us or the squirrels.
See "Ardeth Wood's Brother Wants to Clone the Majestic Oak Named in Her Honour After Violent Storm" by Joanne Laucius, Ottawa Citizen, September 29 2017.
The Bebb's is a naturally occurring hybrid of the bur and white oak. The Arboretum was established in 1889. This specimen is reported to have been transplanted there circa 1897-98.
