This oak is fast growing and spreading while also offering a different feel as it has narrow, oblong lance shaped leaves.

Other pluses include:

• interesting fissured corky bark with orangish cracks
• toothed leaf margins
• great, golden autumn colour
• round acorns set on long-scale, “mossy” cups
• small, narrow leaves are easier to rake or mulch
• curved spreading branches making a broadly conical tree