Konara Oak          kwer-KUS gland-U-lif-er-a

• Broadleaf deciduous tree, to 50 ft (15 m) tall; bark fissured.  Leaves alternate, simple, 6-15 cm long, oblong-obovate to ovate-lanceolate, tip acute, base rounded or wedge-shaped, margin has 7-12 pairs of gland-tipped (mucronate) triangular teeth, bright and glossy above, grayish below with appressed silky-pubescence; petiole 6-15 mm long.  Fall color mixed green, orange and red.  Fruit 1 or several on a short stalk, ripen in one season, acorn ovoid, about 1-1.5 cm long enclosed 1/3 by the cup.
• Sun to part shade, tolerates many soil types.  
• Hardy to USDA Zone 5      Native to Japan, Korea, and China.   Brought to North America in 1893 by Arnold Arboretum. Extremely rare in cultivation (Jacobson, 1996).
• glandulifera: Latin, gland and ferre, to bear.
• Glen Ellen, California: Quarryhill Botanical Garden