Hinckley Oak

Description

Quercus hinckleyi is a shrub that forms a dense, tangled thicket no more than 1.5 meters (5 feet) tall. The highly branched stems are coated in scaly gray bark and the smaller twigs are brown and sometimes waxy. The leaves are up to 1.5 centimeters (0.6 inch) long by 1.5 cm (0.6 inch) wide and have large, widely spaced teeth, resembling holly leaves. The blades are leathery, waxy, and blue-green in color. The fruit is an acorn 1 to 1.5 centimeters (0.4-0.6 inch) wide at the cap, the nut measuring up to 2 centimeters (0.8 inch) long.