Also called pedunculate oak and French oak. One of the
white oaks.
Part of
oak genus Quercus
and
beech / oak family Fagaceae.
Native to all over 🇪🇺 Europe and into Asia. Widely cultivated in temperate regions, it now lives wild in parts of 🇨🇳 China and North America.
Invasive > in USA
With oak's strength and flexibility, Vikings built their longships primarily (in many cases, entirely) of oak. With this species native to almost everywhere they roamed, this is the species they used.