Where found:

• Parks, gardens and farms for shade, timber, nuts or specimen trees.
• Tolerates most soils except highly alkaline.
  

• Widespreading shapely deciduous tree with short stout trunk and strong semi-erect branches. Coppices (reshoots after being cut). Edible nuts. Potential for timber.
• Large leaves 10 to 20 centimetres long and narrow with coarse teeth around the margins. Rich green turning yellow then dark brown before falling in autumn.
• Male flowers form long creamy yellow catkins 15 to 25 centimetres long. Female flowers are single or in clusters of 2 or 3 at the base of catkins. Develop into sharp, spiny green capsules producing one to three rounded nuts.
• Bark is smooth and silvery when young, developing to dark brown and ridged, often in a spiral formation.
• Tolerant of drought. Dislikes strong and salt wind
• Wood properties: high heartwood content, light brown in colour, ground durable. Slow and careful drying required.
• Used for posts and poles (by coppicing method), furniture, casks, kitchenware.