The Glorious Life of the Oak Quotes

“Actually, there are two oaks native to Britain. The English, common or pendunculate oak (Quercus robur), and the durmast or sessile oak (Quercus petraea). The trees are similar in appearance and grow to roughly the same height (20m to 25m average). They can be differentiated so: the pendunculate bears its acorns on long stalks – elves use them for their tobacco pipes in fairy stories – while its leaves have little lobes at the base. The sessile has a short stalk for the acorn and a long stalk for the leaf, which lacks lobes. That said, a British oak is a British oak.”
― John Lewis-Stempel, The Glorious Life of the Oak