Broadly spreading, evergreen. Dark green shiny leaves 6-12cm long. Twigs red. Small white flowers on 25cm spreading racemes. Red to black cherries in Feb/Mar. Good screening tree and popular hedging plant. Cold hardy, tolerates lime. PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS: Handle promptly on arrival DO NOT let the roots dry out. If potting, press the potting medium firmly around each plant. Water after potting and regularly for 10 days. especially during dry windy weather. Put under shadecloth if possible. If planting in the open, really firm the soil around each plant using your heel, then water fairly regularly until established. STRAIGHTS SUITABLE FOR STANDARDS.

Bushy topped with short stout branches as an adult tree, evergreen. Lance-like juvenile form with downward pointing stiff saw-tooth leaves.

Broadly columnar, deciduous, though evergreen in Wakefield, with shiny lobed leathery bristle tipped leaves, shades of bronzy red in winter. Very small brown acorns.

N Africa and S Spain. Broadly spreading, dense crown, semi-evergreen. Dark green leaves. Tolerates exposure, heat and dry conditions. Good acorn production.