Tree (shrub) up to 20 m tall, often with more stems, with sparse crown. The bark is gray, later brown, rough, scaly or lamellar. Leaf blade obovate, in the youth sticky with 5 to 8 pairs of lateral-veins. Edge of leaf irregularly 2x serrated, top obtuse. Face and other side of the leaf hairless (only near veins may be hairy). Woody female cones pedunculated, hard, shape ovoid to elliptical. The fruit is small, flat achene with a narrow opaq edge. The achene is round to pentagonal,red- brown, shiny. Shoots: Shoots glabrous, sticky, at the top white-frosted. Natural range: Europe (outside the most northern part), the Western Asia; in our area domestic.