Description

Form:

Rounded

Size:

Will grow 40 to 60’ and wide at landscape maturity

Rate:

Fast; 1’ 3.4” per year over a 10 year period

Zone:

5-9

Leaves:

Alternate, simple, obovate to elliptic, 4 to 6” long and 3 to 4” wide, usually with 7 lobes occasionally 9, sinuses cut deeply to midrib, leathery, lustrous dark green above, glabrous except for axillary tufts of hairs below; petiole – 1 ½ to 2 ¼” long.

Bark:

Not showy

Fruit:

Acorns are ovate ¾ to 1” long, short stalked and covered only at the base by a hemispherical-shaped involucral cap. Nut is striated with brown-black lines.

Flowers:

n/a