Size: tree, 60-100' average height at maturity
Buds: imbricate, often with acute tips, brownish
Leaves: deciduous, alternate, 2-3" long and wide, simple, fan shaped, often incised of divided at apex, bright green, yellow in fall
Twigs: short, stout, spurlike branches, 2 bundle scars, exfoliate in gray papery shreds
Flowers: dioecious, inconspicuous, males green in 1" catkins, femailes on pedicle up to 2" with 1-2 greenish ovules, bloom March-April
Fruit: spherical tan to orangish seed up to 1", unpleasant odor, nutlike seed inside fleshy outer layer
Bark: gray-brown ridges, darker furrows
