Collected Oak (?)

I thought I posted this last fall when I collected but can't find the post. I found this interesting specimen I think is a scrubby kind of oak. Based on other growth in the area it seems like a White Oak, but when I collected (very late November) there were of course no leaves. I got some completely justifiable flack on the forum for collecting at the wrong time and most speculated a dead tree come spring.

After a super nasty winter, I suspected that this guy had died. Not so. The buds all over the tree are swelling and ready to pop. This one makes me so happy because it’s a local tree – a part of Minnesota that I get to watch on my deck every day.

The base is about 3" across and the whole tree is about 36" tall. There is a ton of natural jin and shari. I will follow this up in a week or so after leaves have popped. Really excited to have this cool deciduous in the collection and looking forward to helping it become a nice small tree in a pot some day.

Any update on this tree?

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Unfortunately the tree showed swelling buds and then just stopped. No buds broke into leaves. A few checks on random branches up on top reveals that it's not dead- there is green under the bark. I don't know if it got stressed before leafing out or what. Still a waiting game.