Quercus oglethorpensis

Oglethorpe oak is in the white oak group (Quercus), in the beech or Fagaceae family, and is native to the United States (southwestern Carolina, northeastern Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi). It can reach up to 24 m in height, with a straight trunk, twisted branches.

• Leaves are deciduous, alternate, simple, narrowly elliptic, 5–13 cm long and 2–4 cm broad, apex obtuse, base is wedge-shaped, margin entire but sometimes margin wavy or slightly lobed near apex, midrib yellow; 3-5 vein pairs, petiole 2-7 mm long; color is dark green, hairless above, light green beneath with yellowish pubescence.
• Species is monoecious; male flowers are yellow-green catkins; female flowers are small, inconspicuous, appearing with the leaves in early spring.
• Fruit is an ovoid acorn 1.6–2 cm long, dark brown, sessile or on a short stem, enclosed 1/3 by cup; cup top-shaped, with appressed scales; maturing in 1 year, maturing in 1 growing season.
• Bark is light grey, scaly; twigs are hairless, purple; buds are globose, red brown, 2-2.5 mm long.