The Chestnut Oak is a subset member of the white oak group. The tree is tall (upto 100 feet) with a bole diameter of more than three feet. The trunk is medium-dark and deeply ridged. Leaves are four to six inches long and have many pairs of rounded teeth instead of lobes. They are leathery and glossy on top and light and hairy underneath. The acorns are relatively narrow (less than an inch) with bowl shaped caps of tight scales. Twigs are hairless and have quarter-inch, pointy hairless buds.

The growing region is from Alabama to Maine. Some chestnut oaks have lived for more than eight hundred years. 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.