Broadly conical, deciduous. Masses of white flowers in spring followed by edible pears of varying quality. Yellow to bronze autumn colours. Used as rootstock (as well as P. calleryana) for Nashi.

4 adjacent plots of Quercus affinis, crispipilis & laurina in the Guthrie Smith Arboretum at Tutira (HB) have produced vigorous straight trunked evergreen trees. Recently thinned to develop the crowns and add diameter to the logs. Worthy of wider planting.

Vigorous, broadly spreading, semi-evergreen in mild climates. Leaves similar in shape to Quercus cerris. Tolerates dry windy conditions. Deer, sheep, goats, ducks and pheasants eat most oak acorns.

Medium size evergreen oak from the warmer parts of China, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong and north of Vietnam. Grows on ridge tops and slopes in mature or primary tropical & subtropical forest at 500-2200m. Leaves narrow and hang down. Growing at Eastwoodhill, none have survived outside in the UK.