Northern red oak

Quercus rubra

• Height: up to 30 m, occasionally up to 50 m
• Trunk: Bark grey-brown, smooth, becoming furrowed with age
• Leaves: alternate, distinctly and sharply lobed, 10–25 cm long, with reddish-brown tufts of hair in the leaf axils on the underside, with long petioles (2–5 cm)
• Buds: light brown, clustered at the ends of branches
• Fruits/Seeds: globular, stout, thick fruits with caps/cups on short stalks, clustered together
• Other: striking red autumn color

^{Photos: BUND Naturschutz Bavaria (1,2,3,4)}