Quercus rehderiana

An evergreen tree to 25m. The bark is dark grey-brown in rectangular plates and the leaves emerge bronze in the spring. They then become polished leathery deep green above and below. The leaf edges are sometimes slightly spiney but as often smooth. This tree has quite conspicuous flowers and clusters of yellow-green catkins hang from the branches in spring, then become small acorns by autumn. The cups are scaly and shallow, enclosing less than half of the acorn