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A deciduous, long-lived tree,reaches a height of 30 to 40 m, has a very strong trunk, grows from the lowlands to the foothills in native forests and mixed stands, is commonly grown mainly on more fertile and sandy soils, lives to 500 years or more, bark grayish-green when young, smooth, later cracked gray-black,
Habitus: it has an ovoid, slender crown, which is less branched than the summer oak crown
Leaf: the leaves are shallowly lobed, wedge-shaped at the base, have a longer petiole, the length of the leaves is 8 to 16 cm, inverted, egg-shaped
Flower: catkins with a 6–8-piece inflorescence, catkins almost sessile.
Fruit: acorns sessile, Fruits in leaf axils 1–5 sessile or on short stalks up to 1.5 mm, calyx scales not fused, ovate-lanceolate, small, finely hairy, flat or only slightly convex, acorn oblong 15–25 × 8 -14 mm
It grows on rocky and drier soils, in foothills, has lower demands on soil and moisture, is light-loving, frost-resistant
It sheds acorns for the first time around the age of 60.
Acorn
Quercus dalechampii, Q. polycarpa
fungi disease Erysiphe alphitoides (teleom.) – Oidium alphitoides (anam.), Phytophthora ramorum, beetle larva Agrilus biguttatus, moth Thaumetopoea processionea
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