Hungarian Oak Acorns

currently unavailable Hungarian oak represents a widespread species of oak found in southeastern Europe. I was fortunate to get acorns over 35 years ago from Hungary and Romania where the species flourishes and can grow to over 100 ft. tall.  For a while I had gotten a few acorns from U.S. sources too and sold those. As time went on, I kept some of the more vigorous trees at my farm from the overseas sources as they appeared to be more 'true' from what I read in the species descriptions. This beautiful and flourishing oak has a wide tolerance to super acidic and dry soils yet thrives at my farm in southwestern Michigan in a 'regular' soil of a ph of 6. 

Hungarian oak is one of the few species used for the inoculation of truffles. It also is known for its wood quality to make oak barrels for wine. Hungarian oak like the native American white oak is highly desirable wood and is quite rot resistant. Normally this species is only found as a cultivar. Cultivars are grafted and several varieties exist in the U.S. that are currently used as ornamental trees. But aside from the selections few people have taken the time to grow out seedlings of it to see how the tree performs in North America. Over the years, it has no problems with mildew, borers or frost cracks. The broad spreading limbs and full crown make it an ideal shade tree. It is not an easy to tree to limb up to create an 8 ft. trunk. The branching occurs on young trees and are almost horizonal to the trunk.  The acorn production is medium. Acorns are produced at the end of the branches in clusters which ripen late in the season.