One or more smooth, dark gray trunks hold up an arched, drooping canopy. Massive, gnarled branches reach up and out in a vase-like shape.
Main trunks can be eight to twelve feet across.
Upper canopies may be one hundred and thirty feet wide. Overall tree size is seventy feet tall and over one hundred feet wide. An evergreen, this oak has year-round leaf drop. The stiff, holly-like leaves are convex, dark green and bear sharp, jagged edges. Leaf length is one to three inches.