Texas Red Oak – Quercus Buckleyi

Texas Red Oak is a small to medium tree that grows to 50 feet tall. 

Its bark is dark gray, smoothish, furrowed into ridges on lower trunk and older branches while its branches are slender, grayish or brownish, glabrous, ending in a cluster of small egg-shaped grayish or brownish buds.

Leaves are shiny dark green above and pale green with tufts of hairs in vein axils below, turning brown or red in fall. They alternate, with deeply divided into 5-9 (usually 7) lobes, broadest toward the tip and end in several bristle-tipped teeth. Fruits are acorns maturing in the second year.