Too Hot For Oak Trees! – Watts Up With That?

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Ian Magness/Brian Catt

More, truly juvenile reporting in the Telegraph:

English oak trees are being replaced by foreign variants because they can no longer cope with the British heat, experts have warned.

Searing temperatures across the UK have forced tree nurseries to import oaks germinated in southern Europe, which are better equipped than home-grown trees at surviving hot weather.

Full story here.

English oaks, formally named Quercus robur or pedunculate oak, are common across most of Europe, where they have considerably hotter summers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_robur

The idea that it is too hot for them in England is ridiculous.

Ironically, Brian Catt posted this on X and got this reply from the “journalist”, Patrick Galbraith:

https://twitter.com/catandman/status/2087996547715784989

As confirmed by the Woodland Trust:

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/english-oak

You’d think  an Environment Correspondent might know this!