Yes that bark is amazing. Wouldn't guess oak if I didn't know.

Shocked me when I crawled under the foliage to get a look at the tag, so yes, indeed.

Dax

Wow. Even the best bicolor bark can't match that! Almost looks like Betula nigra. I wonder if it can tolerate the relative wetness of the East/Midwest considering its origin.

Did you keep some acorns?

Why is the peeling bark so desirable?

An impressive plant native to Texas I hadn't heard of before...nice!

Does anyone know if this is evergreen or semi-evergreen?

Deciduous

I have acorns, yes. They're real green but I took one cap off w/o damaging the acorn... regardless, I'm drying them for 30 days with other nut seeds I'm doing the same too.

It's a bada$$ tree. What else can be said & to have a hardy zone 5 seed source is great.

Dax

Dax,

Where was the tree in the pics located?

Bruce

Petersburg, IL.

Dax

Native Nurseries describes this as Water oak leaves with white oak bark. Nice tree, now I know I need one to go with my Water oak.

My Q bicolor gives it a run for its money:

I have a couple of these trees, they're still babies. I didn't know they had exfoliating bark, I have several Q. Bicolor also. A websearch shows them to be called Durand oak. Before I had done the websearch for the common name, I had THOUGHT the Sinuata was another oak, and I can't recall the name of it. I got my 2 Durand oaks at Mossy Oaks Natives nursery. Mine are too young to show any exfoliating bark, though. My Bicolors are showing the exfoliating bark though. They are great for waterlogged soil like what I have in my lower yard.