Historic gardens constitute a significant dimension of Italy’s cultural heritage, reflecting the connection between vegetation and architectural elements. This study focuses on Villa De Capoa, a historic public garden in Campobasso municipality where 350 trees were surveyed, comprising 181 angiosperms and 169 gymnosperms. Since documentation on the garden’s origins and changes is limited, an interdisciplinary method combining...

Available knowledge on the European white oaks ( Quercus , sect. Quercus ) plastome still exhibits large gaps, mostly in respect of detailed phylogeny and information from southern Europe and adjacent Near East. We investigated DNA sequence polymorphism at two plastid loci on 270 individuals representing 13 white oak species/taxa and retrieved several hundred sequences of the same two DNA regions from GenBank to fill the above...