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Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section Quercus sect. Cerris.It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the cores of cricket balls.
Quercus variabilis, the Chinese cork oak, is a species of oak in the section Quercus sect. Cerris, native to a wide area of eastern Asia in southern, central, and eastern China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.
– Chinkapin oak – eastern, central, and southwestern US (West Texas and New Mexico), northern Mexico; Quercus ningqiangensis S.Z.Qu & W.H.Zhang – southeastern China; Quercus oblongifolia Torr. – Arizona blue oak, Southwestern blue oak, or Mexican blue oak – # southwestern U.S., northwestern Mexico; Quercus obtusata Bonpl. – Mexico
Cork tree or corktree may refer to: Cork oak, Quercus suber, the tree from which most cork is harvested; Chinese cork oak, Quercus variabilis, a tree from which cork is occasionally harvested; Cork-tree, a species of Phellodendron; Euonymus phellomanus, a large deciduous shrub with corky “wings” Indian cork tree, Millingtonia hortensis
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Oak wood chips are used for smoking foods such as fish, meat, and cheese. [87] [88] In Japan, Children's Day is celebrated with Kashiwa-mochi rice cakes, filled with a sweet red bean paste, and wrapped in a kashiwa oak leaf. [89] The bark of the cork oak is used to produce cork stoppers for wine bottles.
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In woody plants, the epidermis of newly grown stems is replaced by the periderm later in the year. As the stems grow a layer of cells form under the epidermis, called the cork cambium, these cells produce cork cells that turn into cork. A limited number of cell layers may form interior to the cork cambium, called the phelloderm.