Flower: Male flowers are green, borne in naked catkins, 2 to
4 inches long. Female flowers are reddish and appear as single spikes. Appearing
with the leaves.

Fruit: Ovoid, but may be oblong, with a warty cap that covers
1/4 of the fruit. The cap always detaches at maturity. Matures in one year,
ripens 120 days after pollination (July to September).

Twig: Red-brown to somewhat gray, hairless, with red-brown
multiple terminal buds that are small, rounded and hairless. Twigs are often
shiny or somewhat glaucous.

Bark: Whitish or ashy gray, varying from scaly to irregularly
platy or blocky. On older trees smooth patches are not uncommon.

Form: A large tree; when open grown, white oaks have rugged,
irregular crowns that are wide spreading, with a stocky bole. In the forest
crowns are upright and oval.