This tree makes an excellent feature in a larger garden or rural property. Its long leaves with bristles along the margins make for a different feel to that of most other oaks. The bark, of a grey-brown colour, is smooth at first, becoming vertically and deeply fissured with age.

Leaves are chestnut like with bristles, about 20cm long by 5cm wide. The seed is a rounded acron 2.5cm long.

This species starts as a pyramidal shaped tree then becomes are broadly spreading specimen with age. Proven in Central Victoria on several sites including Beechworth.

In Autumn oftentimes a lot of somewhat bitter acorns are produced. The wood is good for fuel, but most other oaks are of a better class timber.

The fuel wood was often used for the traditional Japanese tea ceremony.