You can tell it from the pedunculate or English oak by the leaf stalk, which on a sessile oak is up to 2cm long. Here’s a fact: Around 721 hectares of protected Atlantic oakwood grow across the ...

The pedunculate oak or English oak produces acorns which hang on a stalk or peduncle. The acorns of the sessile oak are stalkless. Oak is a seaworthy timber and was used to build many famous ships ...