| Scientific Name: | Quercus acutissima |
| Common Name: | sawtooth oak |
| Family Name: | Fagaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 15 - 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Screening, Shade tree, Street (boulevard tree), Tall background, Wildlife food |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Oblanceolate, Obovate, Dentate, Pectinate |
| Flowers: | Catkin (ament), Green-yellow, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Nut, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Round-form oak tree; leaves lanceolate-oblanceolate, most blades 18-22cm long x 4-6cm wide, margins toothed (like American chestnut), petiole 2-3cm long. Winter ID: buds mostly 2-4mm long, each with 10-16 small overlapping brown (and sometimes black) scales with grey ciliate margins; leaf scars half-round to crescent shaped with scattered bundle scars; acorn involucre more "hairy" than scaly compared to other oaks. | |