What kind of tree is this?
Clues
- Southern hardwood forest species
- Deciduous
- Large dense symmetrical crown, with an oval or pyramidal shape
- Low branched and typically has 1 trunk
- Bark is smooth, thin and silver-gray
- Grows to 65-80 feet, with 50–60-foot spread
- Leaves are 2-4 inches long, glossy green, simple, alternate, ovate, with serrated edges
- Leaves have pinnate venation
- Leaves turn yellow and copper colored in fall
- Buds are long and thin, resembling cigars
- Fruit is sharply angled nut in pairs in soft-spined, four lobed husk