The English Oak is a member of the white oak group. The tree is very tall (over 100 feet) with a bole diameter of more than three feet. The trunk is dark with shallow grooves. Leaves are four inches long and have many small hairless lobes. The acorns are long and narrow with deep caps and grow on three-inch long stems. Twigs are hairless and have pointy,straight,hairy buds one-quarter inch in length.

The growing region is from Virginia to New York. Oak is a hardwood providing a major portion of the annual lumber in the United States. Oak trees are generally slow-growing and long-lived and tend to be relatively resistant to diseases and insects. Tannin is a major produce from oak bark.