| Foliage | Leaves have five main lobes with fairly deep and rounded sinuses, each main node may have several secondary lobes, each lobe concludes in pointed tip |
Leaf Type
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Simple |
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| Bark | Light gray to brown, becoming more ridged and furrowed with age |
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| Bud | ovoid, light brownish red, rounded to pointed tip |
Bud Arrangement
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Alternate |
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| Twig | Smooth to lustrous, grayish brown to green or brownish red |
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| Flower | Monoecious imperfect, male flowers form on pendulous catkins red to tannish red; female flowers develop at base of leaf petioles from current year's growth, red |
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| Fruit | acorn, cap 1/4 length of nut, matures in the second year |
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| Fall Color | deep red |
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