Quercus pontica

Armenian oak or Pontine oak is in the beech or Fagaceae family, and is native to the western Caucasus mountains of Georgia and northeastern Turkey and Armenia. It is a shrub or small tree and can reach up to 10m in height.

• Leaves are deciduous, alternate, simple, ovate, 10–20 cm long and 4–15 cm broad, with a serrated margin with 25-30 small, pointed teeth; leaves are covered in hairs when young but become smoother with age; petiole is 1.5 cm long.
• Species is monoecious; male inflorescences are in clusters of 2–3 catkins, 5–20 cm long; flowering is in May–June.
• Fruit is an oval-lanciolate large acorn, 2.5–4 cm long, apex narrow, cup enclosing 1/3 to 1/2 of the nut, in clusters of 2–5.
• Bark is bark grey to purple brown, scaly, becoming rough, furrowed; twigs are stout, angled, tawny to grey brown, with narrow lenticels; buds are 1-1.5 cm long, with green, imbricated scales, hairy towards the apex.