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 Leaves are simple, alternate and deciduous with 5-7 bristle-tipped lobes, and deep U-shaped sinuses.  The base of the leaf is often truncated.  Terminal buds are red-brown, ovoid, and smooth.  Branches are often at 90 degree angles to the trunk in the lower crown and branches may have small, "pin-like" lateral branches.  Bark is gray and smooth, becoming shallowly fissured with age.  Fruit is an acorn 1/2 inches long with a mahogany striped nut and saucer-like cap covering the base of the nut, maturing in two seasons.  Pin oak is planted as a shade tree in Alabama and is intolerant of shade.

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