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Quercus acutissima (Sawtooth oak)

Other names: Sawthorn oak, Japanese silkworm oak

Q. acutissima is a rounded, deciduous tree with fissured, corky, grey to black bark and ovate to lance-shaped, glossy, mid-green leaves with bristle-tipped teeth. Ovoid acorns are borne in cups covered with long, slender, hairy scales.
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20m max. spread

20m max. height

20-50 years to maturity

Quercus suber (Cork oak)

Other names: Cork tree

Q. suber is a half-hardy, rounded, evergreen tree with thick, ridged, corky bark and ovate to oblong, toothed, rigid, glossy, dark green leaves, grey-hairy beneath. Small catkins of insignificant yellow-green flowers in spring are followed by ovoid to oblong acorns.
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20m max. spread

20m max. height

20-50 years to maturity

Quercus cerris (Turkey oak)

Other names: Iron oak, Bitter oak, Manna oak, Mossy-cupped oak, Wainscot oak

Q. cerris is a variable, fast-growing, spreading, deciduous tree with plated, dark grey bark and oblong to lance-shaped, deeply lobed or toothed, dark green leaves, pale green beneath, turning yellow-brown in autumn. Clusters or catkins of inconspicuous, yellow-green flowers in spring are followed by acorns with bristly cups.
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25m max. spread

30m max. height

20-50 years to maturity

Quercus petraea (Sessile oak)

Other names: Durmast oak, Quercus sessiliflora, Cornish oak

Q. petraea is a large, broad, rounded to spreading, deciduous tree with ridged, grey bark and yellow-stalked, leathery, ovate or oblong, lobed, dark green leaves turning orange-brown in autumn. Insignificant dull yellow flowers in spring are followed by stalkless, oblong to ovoid, brown acorns, borne singly or in clusters in autumn.
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20m max. spread

30m max. height

20-50 years to maturity

Quercus coccinea (Scarlet oak)

Q. coccinea is a rounded, deciduous tree with plated, pale grey-brown bark and glossy, elliptic, deeply lobed, mid-green leaves with bristle-tipped teeth and turning bright red in autumn. Rounded acorns are half-covered in a bowl-shaped cap.
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15m max. spread

20m max. height

20-40 years to maturity

Quercus kelloggii (Californian black oak)

Other names: California black oak, Kellogg oak

Q. kelloggii is a rounded, deciduous tree with cracked, dark brown bark, elliptic, glossy, dark green leaves with bristle-tipped lobes. Leaves turn red, yellow, and orange in autumn as oblong to ovoid, green acorns ripen brown.
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15m max. spread

20m max. height

50-100 years to maturity

Quercus garryana (Oregon oak)

Other names: Oregon white oak, Garry oak

Q. garryana is a rounded, deciduous tree with cracked, pale grey bark, oblong to ovate, glossy, deeply lobed, dark green leaves and ovoid, edible acorns.
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10m max. spread

10m max. height

50-100 years to maturity

Quercus prinus (Chestnut oak)

Other names: Rock oak, Basket oak, Rock chestnut oak, Tanbark oak, American white oak, American chestnut oak, White oak, Quercus pumila, Quercus montana

Q. prinus is a large, rounded to oval, deciduous tree with oblong to ovate, coarsely-toothed, glossy, dark green leaves and pendent clusters of yellow-green flower catkins in spring followed by ovoid, dark brown fruit.
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18m max. spread

18m max. height

50-100 years to maturity

Quercus falcata (Southern red oak)

Other names: American red oak, Red oak, Spanish oak, Swamp red oak

Q. falcata is a rounded to spreading, deciduous tree with fissured, grey-brown bark and variable, dark green leaves, white-hairy beneath, with three to nine curved, bristle-tipped lobes. Insignificant flowers in spring are followed by spherical acorns in autumn.
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12m max. spread

15m max. height

50-100 years to maturity

Lithocarpus edulis (Japanese stone oak)

Other names: Pasania edulis , Quercus edulis, Quercus glabra, Quercus laevigata, Japanese tanbark oak, Japanese false oak

L. edulis is a rounded to broadly spreading evergreen tree with oblong, veined, glossy, leathery, dark green leaves and erect spikes of pale yellow-green flowers in spring are followed by orange-brown acorns.
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8m max. spread

10m max. height

20-50 years to maturity