Requesting Id of this tree: 2 high res. images.
The pictures below were taken on May 9th in Binsar, Kumaon, Uttarakhand. Elevation around 8000 feet.
Kindly help me identify this tree. It wasn’t flowering or fruiting. Also attached is the picture of the trunk.
This tree has long confounded me. I have been wanting to identify it since a long time. I have never seen it flowering or fruiting. I will be very grateful if it can be identified
Quercus is one possibility, as per
https://www.treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/quercus/quercus-humboldtii/
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/706702-Quercus-engleriana
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/902356