Japan Flora: Tree, the branches densely gray-white short-hairy while young; leaves oblong- lanceolate or narrowly oblong, 8-15 cm. long, 3-4 cm. wide, acuminate, obtuse to shallowly cordate at base, undulately toothed with 15 to 20 pairs of lateral nerves that project be­yond the margin as short awns, puberulous on nerves above, glabrescent to densely pale yellowish brown soft hairy, with discoid sessile glands beneath; staminate aments 10-15 cm. long, densely flowered, yellowish white, erect, or suberect; fruiting involucres with long subglabrous spines; nuts 2-3, the hilum occupying the whole basal area; styles about 3 mm. long. July. Foothills;

Hokkaido (sw. distr.), Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; much planted for the nuts.