Quercus castaneifolia C.A.Mey.

Iran; Caucasus; South and Southwest of Caspian Sea; mounts of Algeria;

reaches 30 m tall; crown broadly conical; limbs straight, stout, somewhat swollen near trunk;

8-20 x 5-9 cm; variable in size; deciduous; oblong elliptic; apex acuminate; base cordate or cuneate ; shiny dark green, glabrous above; tawny pubescent beneath, becoming glabrous; midrib yellow; 9-14 pairs of lateral veins, ending in triangular, blunt, mucronate teeth; petiole light green, pubescent, 2-4 cm long;

acorn ovoid or ellipsoid, 2 cm long; hemispherical cup with elongated and recurving scales, covering 1/2 of nut;

hardy; all types of soils; very fast growing;

– A. Camus : n° 117 ; – Sub-genus Cerris, Section Cerris, sub-section Cerris (with look , cerris and euboica ); – Rare; – The triangular, somewhat blunt teeth set it apart from Q.libani whose teeth are pointed;